I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Looking back now, it was poverty really. — Leon Edwards Copy Share Image
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“(5.) The working of the Romish system of celibacy, voluntary poverty, and monastic vows, has produced such fruits as prove the principle… — Archibald Alexander Hodge Copy Share Image
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“WITH GOD YOU CAN TURN YOUR impeaching importunities into optimal opportunities. Frightful frustration into fortifying fortunes. Humble attitudes into higher altitudes .Distress… — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
“Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘Look, the Kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do not allow your life to keep pouring out and reducing without converting it to tangible products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.” — Tom Cooper Copy Share Image
Never insult those who are Poor or Ugly,They are the reason YOU look rich and good! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries. — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
