Poverty Quotes · Page 66

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

— Roberto Benigni

“Stop reacting to poverty,act upon yourself and start living in prosperity.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I have poor thought to become rich, but I have rich thought not to become poor.

— Voeun Tivea

“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution.

— Dawn Foster

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a…

— Diane Ravitch

Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political…

— John Adams

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

— Sally Stanford

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of…

— Matthew Desmond

“To see time and life correctly, you must realize that whenever you waste a second, you are wasting life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we…

— Muhammad Yunus

The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt.

— Richard Grenell

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look…

— Ratan Tata

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring…

— Walter Bagehot

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

— Jo Brand

“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours…

— Adam Smith

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is…

— William Shakespeare

“Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.

— William Blake

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the…

— Veronica Roth

We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

— H. Rap Brown

“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other…

— Osamu Dazai

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

— May Sarton

It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those…

— Wess Stafford