Poverty Quotes · Page 71

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

— Henry Ford

“In order to become great, one must understand the secret of time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You too can buy greatness by converting your time into greatness through hard work.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A poor person is one who usually remembers what he had eaten the same day last week.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Three belongings impoverish: Love, hope and fake friendships.”

— Tiziri Wuming

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

— J. C. Ryle

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

— George Herbert

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

— Robin Leach

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in…

— Sherwood Anderson

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western…

— Niall Ferguson

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

— Jim Carrey

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out…

— John H. McWhorter

“That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across…

— Jerry Ash

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go…

— Muhammad Ali

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ...…

— Anonymous

Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from…

— Mark Ruffalo

“He seems so frivolous and so careless, but he gives money to beggars, not frivolously or carelessly, but because he believes in…

— Dale Ahlquist

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very…

— Wayne Dyer

“The world was full of people struggling along with heavy suitcases, poor men dawdling in doorways until they could get their eyes…

— Marina Endicott

“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness…

— Lewis Hyde

I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty,…

— Tom Shadyac

I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school.…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make…

— Honoré de Balzac

The broad highway to poverty and need - Is, much to build and many mouths to feed

— Acilius

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

— Jim Yong Kim

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

— Sam Rayburn

“I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

— Jean de la Bruyere

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

— Dennis Banks

Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty.

— Minka Kelly

But many fail to realise that poverty ain't a choice but a situation..

— Melchor Lim

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

— Sal Albanese

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

— Henri Nouwen

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

— Barack Obama

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

— Eli Khamarov

“If you don't act like your poor, pretty soon you will be”

— Ronald A. Martin Jr

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee