Poverty Quotes · Page 58

“If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

— Adam Smith

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…

— Edward Gibbon

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the…

— Pope Francis

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

— Rick Harrison

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

— Benjamin Mkapa

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.…

— Mother Teresa

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured…

— Emily Dickinson

“You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the…

— Paul Rice

“It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.…

— Irene Khan

“Life is all about conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.

— Ravi Zacharias

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

— Óscar Arias

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

— Groucho Marx

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

— Anonymous

“Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty," Sarah commented.”

— Magnus Flyte

Freddie Gray's life was poverty and violence. Trauma and hopelessness. His death was an exclamation point on an unspoken story.

— Wes Moore

“In the place of solitude, you are able to take advantage of time and bring forth children in the form of products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

— Gary Bauer

“When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity…

— Wendell Berry

The Gujarat model laced with the Godhra stink is a model of hatred that has taken 2,000 lives, while the Congress model…

— Asrani

“There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose…

— Sunday Adelaja

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

— Plato

The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed…

— Robert Scheer

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

— Samuel Johnson

“It doesn’t matter what your area of calling is, if you could invest quality time in it, then, you will be sure…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.”

— Bryant McGill

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

— Ron Kittle

When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears

— African Proverb

One of the things my dad and mom worked on throughout their lives was the eradication of poverty.

— Martin Luther King III

“Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!”

— Patrick Dennis

The worst part of poverty is to bear it impatiently.

— Vikrant Parsai

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Poverty is the origin of invention”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Homelessness is illegal. In my city no one is homeless although there are an increasing number of criminals living on the street.…

— Jeanette Winterson

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about…

— Artur Davis