Poverty Quotes · Page 79

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

— Nancy Mitford

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

— Wangari Maathai

“When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.”

— Greg Campbell

“To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products through hard work.”

— Sunday Adelaja

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

— Samuel Johnson

“People who do not waste their life truly understand the importance of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poverty, war, and abuse stalked the earth, and women got the worst of it.”

— Therese Oneill

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

— David A. Bednar

“Many of those living in poverty in this country, in fact, would be considered quite wealthy by poor people in other countries.”

— Ben Carson

... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis…

— Stephanie Coontz

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people,…

— Jane Goodall

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light…

— Katherine Mansfield

“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty…

— Christian Bobin

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

— Samuel Johnson

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

— Margaret Mead

I've been to Australia, Russia and many of places I wanted to see as a child. But I've never visited India. I've…

— Chris de Burgh

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military…

— Stephen Kinzer

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control…

— Debbie Stabenow

“Poverty does not necessarily lead to extremism,’ I said. In my head, images of the proud Imams defending their traditions against the…

— Ben Rawlence

Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those…

— Robin Morgan

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in…

— Yusuf Hamied

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward…

— Kerry James Marshall

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

— Martin O'Malley

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

— Henry Ford

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

— Daniel Defoe

“You can produce as many products as you want in life if you just apply the principle of time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Run well and win in this race of life by converting your time into added values and products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

— Oliver Stone

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money.

— Pablo Picasso

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

— Michel Chossudovsky

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

— Napoleon Hill

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

— Catherine Tate

In every community there are poor and unemployed people.

— Mayawati

It is better to be poor and live long than rich and die young

— Proverb

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

— Peter Diamandis

“Your life was meant to be used to fulfill your purpose and destiny.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back.”

— Sunday Adelaja