Poverty Quotes · Page 88

“May we show great concern to those of great concern to God.”

— Dillon Burroughs

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

— Samuel Johnson

“To reproduce your life is to impact the world with it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

— Big Freedia

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

— Burna Boy

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

— Russell Conwell

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

— Publilius Syrus

The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to…

— Philip Kitcher

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of…

— Tom Lehrer

“One of the main downsides of not being poor or broke is that you are quick to replace even what can be…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates…

— Edward Glaeser

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Even a mouldy crust of bread may be riches beyond computing. Even a cellar stocked with gold may be poverty beyond relief.”

— Mikhail Naimy

Psychologically, it's difficult to ever shrug off the effects of extreme hardship or poverty, family bereavement, chronic ill health or the memory…

— Dawn Foster

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

— George C. Marshall

Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence…

— Chogyam Trungpa

If you are weakened by the pains of hunger and poverty, with no money in your pockets, and no one will give…

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of…

— Peter Singer

I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the…

— Barack Obama

My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor.…

— Manny Pacquiao

No-one is destined to live a life of poverty, because each of us has the ability to change everything in this life.…

— Rhonda Byrne

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us…

— Michael Vick

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar,…

— Jane Hersey

“The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“So because you are converting it, you are actually conserving it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

— Horace

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

— Tavis Smiley

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

— Muhammad Ali

“If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.”

— John Steinbeck

Poverty will not be allowed to become a wall in the way of education.

— Shehbaz Sharif

“Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

— William Penn

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

— George Bernard Shaw

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

— Bill Vaughan

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

— Novak Djokovic

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

— Jerry Brown

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

— Anonymous