Poverty Quotes · Page 83

“Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.”

— Enock Maregesi

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

— Horace

“Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

— Eamon Dunphy

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I’m rich in poverty. I got no money coming out of my ass. I’m up to my neck in broke.”

— Jarod Kintz

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

— Madonna

“Give me neither poverty nor riches but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you…

— Anonymous

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is…

— Jim Yong Kim

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we…

— Charles Stanley

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

— Daphne Zuniga

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

— Holly Near

Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them…

— Mother Teresa

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent…

— Alberto Fujimori

While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on…

— Krafft Arnold Ehricke

“Yes, we have to seek redemption! Redemption from the divisive politics based on caste and religion, redemption from the corruption which is…

— Madhu Vajpayee

To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the…

— Pope Francis

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live…

— John Kasich

Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will…

— Carlo Rovelli

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from…

— Samuel Johnson

“We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and…

— Craig Stone

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),…

— Amartya Sen

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger

— Jack Straw

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

— Oscar Wilde

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

— Publilius Syrus

He is poor who doesnt have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.

— Jean Guehenno

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

— Jack Kemp

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

— Anonymous

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

— Katie Davis

“Hunger takes away what you are. Everything we were was just nothing then.”

— Sebastian Barry

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

— Thabo Mbeki

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

— Anonymous

“...the unmistakable smell of poverty, a mixture of cigarette smoke, weed, stale sweat, and fried food.”

— Allison Leotta

“If you think you are poor, then you are more than that.”

— Alin Sav

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

— Henri Nouwen

Growing up in Charlestown, we didn't have money, but we weren't poor either.

— Howie Long

“Value time and convert it into greatness by investing it into learning and researching all that you can.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Of course there's a different law for the rich and poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E

— Ralph Stewart