Poverty Quotes · Page 55

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you have money and you have no knowledge you are poor.

— Aroon George

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

— Robert Kennedy

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

— Evita Peron

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

— George Gilder

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

— Hugh Evans

“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

— Emmanuel Jal

From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement.

— David Lammy

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental…

— Nicholas Kristof

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather…

— Thomas Paine

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

— Democritus

“God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the…

— William MacDonald

“Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

— Jordan Belfort

CPEC will play its important role for eliminating terrorism and extremism and poverty alleviation in the region.

— Shehbaz Sharif

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Once our family was very small and we used to say, ‘’our planet has enough resources to feed all of us’’ but…

— M.F. Moonzajer

If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a…

— Edmund White

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn…

— Henry David Thoreau

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that…

— Adam Smith

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea…

— Dinesh D'Souza

A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.”

— Wanchain

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

— Cynthia Heimel

“Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.”

— Martin Luther

“When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You no wins, callin the field up and the drama done build up and this poverty's the cards that they dealed us.

— D Block

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

— Matthew Desmond

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

— Alexis De Veaux

“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.”

— Will Cuppy

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

— Martha Stewart

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

— Ban Ki-moon

“Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.”

— Sunday Adelaja

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

— Johann Lamont

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

— Michael Pollan

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made

— Kellie Elmore