Poverty Quotes · Page 48

“What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn't think it could kill you, but I think it can.

— Maryse Mizanin

“If you knew that your time is your life, you would protect it as much as you protect your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

— Mother Teresa

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The societies which do not learn to coexist in peace always live in fear and poverty. From: One Vs All”

— Dr.Ashok Anand

“No matter how poor a person is, if they have a family than they are rich.”

— Someone You've Probably Never Heard Of

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up…

— Tupac Shakur

Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at…

— Virginia Postrel

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty.…

— Tom Waits

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

— Geoffrey Canada

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world…

— Ronald Reagan

“Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in…

— St. Francis de Sales

“For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know…

— Sunday Adelaja

“No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work,…

— Sunday Adelaja

Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years.…

— Shelby Steele

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative…

— Abhijit Banerjee

“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but…

— Gary A. Haugen

The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there…

— Jesse Jackson

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give…

— Marsilio Ficino

Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and…

— Muhammad Yunus

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

— Hugh Jackman

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

— Colin Powell

“When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!”

— Sunday Adelaja

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

— Shane Claiborne

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

— Karl Marx

European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

— Angus Deaton

“Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide.”

— Vinita Kinra

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

— Jim Rogers

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

— Amartya Sen

“The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

— Juvenal

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body

— Anonymous

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

— Gideon Welles

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

— George H. W. Bush