Poverty Quotes · Page 85

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

— Benjamin Franklin

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Conception takes place when a man gets together with his creator in solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

— Kirk Douglas

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

— S. Truett Cathy

“Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

— Annie Lennox

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

— Alexander Smith

“Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything is up to you. The life will…

— Sunday Adelaja

A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them…

— Bible

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm…

— Mike Tyson

“You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal…

— Sunday Adelaja

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

— Jamaal Bowman

Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and…

— John Avanzini

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to…

— Denis Diderot

We offer a better way for dealing with persistent poverty in this country. A way that shows poor Americans the world beyond…

— Paul Ryan

I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better…

— Gore Vidal

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war,…

— Andrew Young

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The…

— Pope Francis

Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is…

— T. Harv Eker

“Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There is no ending to the number of products you can produce with your time if well invested.”

— Sunday Adelaja

A garment of poverty in nt my size frm this day on forth God has made me a rich nigga

— Akamnonu Daniel

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

— Samuel Johnson

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

— Lucinda Williams

They do not easily rise in the world whose talents are depressed by poverty.

— Vikrant Parsai

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

— Adrienne Clarkson

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

— Dolly Parton

“She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons”

— Toni Morrison

“As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

— Irwin Redlener

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

— Jacqueline Novogratz

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

— Plutarch

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

— Adam Smith