“The more time you invest into your land of promise, the more productive the land becomes for you.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas. — Ernesto Sirolli Copy Share Image
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The South Bronx has long been ground zero for racially concentrated poverty. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not? — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger Copy Share Image
To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There are organizations like Southern Poverty Law Center, there are some private investigators that work for the Republican Establishment, that actually use… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor,… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving.… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006… — Ollanta Humala Copy Share Image
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters;… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image