Poverty Quotes · Page 50

First I was rich, then I was poor, now I am rich, again and I want to stay that way.

— Demis Roussos

“When His Word is welcomed into our silenced poverty, our poor silence is filled with His every blessing.”

— Anthony Lilles

If you born POOR, its not your mistake, But If you Die Poor it's your mistake.

— Bill Gates

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

— John Yarmuth

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.

— Brian Tracy

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

— Plato

If you grow up poor, I'm not sure you ever shake that off.

— Ant McPartlin

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly…

— Sherman Alexie

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep…

— Orison Swett Marden

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty…

— Ronald Reagan

Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we…

— Russell Means

Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos,…

— Steven Caple Jr

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a…

— Arthur Erickson

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil,…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought…

— Ryan Dunn

“Right now in this world, a child is dying from an ailment because its family cannot afford to buy charcoal for boiling…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then…

— Marya Mannes

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it…

— Bill Bryson

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove…

— Imelda Marcos

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If…

— Jeanne Shaheen

“One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to library and back again, subsisting on…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our…

— Stuart J. Russell

“To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

— Alice Childress

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Most people on the face of the earth do not know what to do with their time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Never look down on a poor man who has nothing, because the moment he looks up, God will come to his aid

— Mercy Pheona

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

— Jo Brand

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

— Francis Keppel

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty ~Socrates”

— Meg Wolfe

“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

— George Herbert

A poor person is one who always thinks that he is being judged by whatever he does.

— Anonymous

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

— Heinrich Heine

“Great offense and poor defense translate into under accumulation of wealth.”

— Thomas J. Stanley

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

— Helene D. Gayle

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

— Chinmayananda Saraswati