Poverty Quotes · Page 72

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Demis Roussos

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

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

— Julie Wenzel

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

— Moonshine Noire

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

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

— Thiruvalluvar

“At every moment, the poverty and richness of God and destiny are not the main reasons, hegemony and surroundings are the main…

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think…

— Abhijit Banerjee

“There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to…

— May Sarton

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

— Nelson Mandela

“Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would…

— Jane Austen

We can help poor people ,but poverty is a decision they make everyday and no one can cure it since they don't…

— Wordfaith3

“Poverty will keep for you your true and tried friends; you will be rid of the men who were not seeking you…

— Seneca

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20…

— Joyce Banda

“Remember, Christ willed to be born poor, and He chose disciples who were living, for the most part, in poverty. Christ made…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence…

— Mona Charen

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is…

— Oscar Wilde

...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part…

— Wess Stafford

I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their…

— Patrick Grant

“While others allow failure to define them, others allow lack or abundance to define them. You cannot define yourself that way! You…

— D.S. Mashego

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came…

— Muhammad Yunus

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued…

— S. E. Cupp

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Clarence Jordan

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

— J. Krishnamurti

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

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

— Javier Milei

Surplus RBI reserves can be used for poverty alleviation.

— Arun Jaitley

“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

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

— Viktor Yanukovych

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

— Jadakiss

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

— Horace

“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

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

— Jim Rogers

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

— Robert D. Lupton