Poverty Quotes · Page 49

“Never do for the poor what they have (or could have) the capacity to do for themselves.”

— Robert D. Lupton

You don't get out of poverty by magic. You get out of poverty with capitalism, savings and hard work.

— Javier Milei

“We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.”

— Herbert Hoover

“The secret of all greatness is to not allow time diminish without converting it into a product of greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

— Horace

Yeah, you see poverty at its best if we aint in the front of the lobby, we on the steps.

— Jadakiss

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

— Viktor Yanukovych

Surplus RBI reserves can be used for poverty alleviation.

— Arun Jaitley

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable…

— Eliot Engel

“Poverty is the surest way to weigh down a soul. And weighted soul does whatever it can do to get some burden…

— Jessica Gadziala

“A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the…

— Anonymous

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves…

— Muriel Barbery

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings…

— Nelson Mandela

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle…

— Michael Franti

It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often…

— Pope Francis

I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and…

— Subhas Chandra Bose

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants.…

— Michael Specter

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better…

— Anne Bradstreet

It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's…

— George F. Kennan

Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world…

— Edward de Bono

“Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it "the antidote to the rest of the world."…

— Anthony Bourdain

Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your…

— Alissa Quart

“The most profound betrayal of feminist issues has been the lack of mass-based feminist protest challenging the government’s assault on single mothers…

— bell hooks

“Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

— Dan Quayle

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

— Thiruvalluvar

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

— Timothy Keller

“The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'. These are called true stories.”

— Moonshine Noire

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

— Malala Yousafzai

Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

— Virginia H. Pearce

“The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty.”

— J. Krishnamurti

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

— Clarence Jordan

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

— Michel de Montaigne

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

— Paul Simon

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.

— Robert Atkins

“I was not use to that kind of hunger, even as a poor college student.”

— Julie Wenzel

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

— Francis Bacon

“If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja