In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A poor man asked the Buddha, Why am I so poor? The Buddha said, you do not learn to give. So the… — Buddhism Copy Share Image
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social… — Rodney Romig Copy Share Image
“I've never understood it,' continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. 'It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my… — W.W. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Two things destroy people : fear of poverty and seeking for fanciful honors — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Look Below and You'll feel Rich, Look Above and You'll feel Poor” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. — Aesop Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But just as legal segregation in the South was a huge national horror hidden in plain view, so too the massive desolation… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Close your eyes, Maxon." "What?" "Close your eyes. Somewhere in this palace, there is a woman who will be your wife. This… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO THE MIND EXCEPT THOSE WE ACKNOWLEDGE BOTH POVERTY AND RICHES ARE THE OFFSPRING OF THOUGHT” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a… — Ian Smillie Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
Ironically, socialist countries do tend to have immediate short term decreases in poverty before collapsing. — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image