Poverty Quotes · Page 104

“Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

— George Herbert

“We lived a dot-to-dot life, never thinking too much about the future.”

— Jennifer Clement

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

— Thomas Szasz

“You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.”

— Antonia Michaelis

“It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.

— Anonymous

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty…

— Alex Garland

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

— Fidel Castro

“We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are, with something called time seemingly precious, but not deeply appreciated.”

— Sunday Adelaja

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

— Charles Baudelaire

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries,…

— Wes Moore

“You must fight to make sure that your life does not just disappear into thin air. It is a battle of not…

— Sunday Adelaja

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,…

— Menno Simons

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still…

— Daniel S Greenberg

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and…

— Paul Auster

“Which statements are true according to the passage? A) Science, governments, and your doctor should be trusted. B) 'Comforting her deep into…

— Tupelo Hassman

The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from…

— Ban Ki-moon

“They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that…

— Bill Maher

“Do you find yourself in a dry place today? Don’t look back toward the land of your bondage, or even to the…

— Amy Layne Litzelman

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater…

— Walter Scott

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

— George Herbert

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

— Michael Palin

“Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

— Benjamin Carson

“The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“To be able to convert time, you must be conscious of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

— Eartha Kitt

“The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.”

— Anthony Liccione

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

— Nicholas Kristof

He who carries the word no with him will never be poor even when he is old.

— Vikrant Parsai

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

— Warren Farrell

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

— H. Rap Brown

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it…

— Marilynne Robinson

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

— Anonymous

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

— John Dryden

“You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.”

— Elizabeth Harrower