Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
“The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly). — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream. — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.” — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer,… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
“The question most people do not ask themselves is what they could do with their time to make it productive.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land... — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I trained myself not to want things, because I thought I'd always be poor. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent. — Douglas Lenat Copy Share Image
Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty. — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
“My parents sold blood for money to buy food. Poverty was our spirit animal.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
