Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
“Time is the wealth through which everything comes into existence.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier. — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
“You too can become great but only thanks to the number of hours you are able to convert into products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Even a mouldy crust of bread may be riches beyond computing. Even a cellar stocked with gold may be poverty beyond relief.” — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are being squeezed out of house and home. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
I'm truly thankful that Life's blows knocked me off the Ivory Tower that so comfortably afforded me the luxury of looking down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance,… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
“Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when… — M.H. Hyndman Copy Share Image
I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty. — Jonathan Morduch Copy Share Image
“There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
