Quotes about poverty

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world when our stomachs are full of delicious food the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty it leaves no right to be generous.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor He lived among them.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Poor people do not go on holiday they go home.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy those who had anything united in common terror.

We must powder our wigs that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Slaves in the past were captured by force today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized) who would not lift a hand against a fellow human being! They have established economic systems that perpetuate their superiority so the poor are blamed either for their laziness or their fate.

The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45 million people living in poverty. These are not parallel facts they are intersecting facts. There are 400 American billionaires

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities one’s sentimental and psychological values go out the window.

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.

Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that I have failed to do God’s work. The government cannot take the place of Christian charity. A loving embrace isn’t given with food stamps. The care of a community isn’t provi

Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will.

Success is built on hard work, the right hard work itself is success.

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

No one has truly become successful on life without having to organize his life.

No man can achieve success if he didn’t first know the value of time.

When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.

Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there

Many people will often say you are a Smart, you are a Genius, give them a chance and they will say it enough for you to start believe it. When you get to that realization, Nothing will ever hold you back

Focus on The Present. Only The Present

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling like the one who was taken out of school, let me assure you), sentences about politics read in a newspaper while waiting for someone to come to an office, triangles and pyramids seen on the t

Most people dont understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Dont Be. Focus

Never settle for less. Others may see it as lacking or not having. But Others also see it as having standards

Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looked like a different person. The press had loosened its grip. From landlords, she had heard eighty-nine nos but one yes. Jori accepted his mother’s high five. He and his brother would have to switch schools. Jori didn’t care. He switched schools all the time. Between seventh and eighth grades, he had attended five different schools—when he went at all. At the domestic-violence shelter alone, Jori ha

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...

Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation with degreed children and still broke, had thought-convinced themselves-that the poverty of their lives could be eliminated by 'professionalisation'.

Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.

You never have anything because you fought for nothing.

They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.

Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas.

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,We kneel before our rightful lord;The lord of all, the money-god,Who rules us blood and hand and brain,Who gives the roof that stops the wind,And, giving, takes away again;Who spies with jealous, watchful care,Our thoughts, our dreams, our secret ways,Who picks our words and cuts our clothes,And maps the pattern of our days;Who chills our anger, curbs our hope,And buys our lives and pays with toys,

Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.

Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement

Most people on the face of the earth do not know what to do with their time.

The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for.

The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to do with time.

The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.

You must know what you do with your time if you must become great in this life.

Every one of us must learn how to make our time productive.

The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time.

You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.

You must choose what you do with your time. You must not just do things because everybody is doing them.

Don’t live your life not knowing what to do with your time.

Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.

The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

Our world is structured in such a way for you not to even know and for you not to even be told and for you not to even think about it that your life is disappearing gradually and that you are left only with very little life and time.

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.

The secret of all greatness is knowing what to do with time.

Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.

Your gifts, talents, and calling will help you to know what you must do.

It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.

Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world

I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particularGod, but even so one can have a faith, something beyondthe limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element ofbuilt-in faith, although it claims to be a science and notmerely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: untilnow I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union orPoland or the Baltic states. In your country I see anabundance of material things. It seems to be unlimited. Butthere's a difference between our countri

It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.

We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.

Born in 1987 in Malawi, William grew up in a village with no electricity or running water, and in a family that barely survived on the food it grew with a little left over to pay for school. After a terrible drought in 2001, William had to drop out of school because his family could no longer afford his school fees. He kept educating himself by going to the library and reading everything he could. One day, he found a book on windmills and determined he'd build one. So he did. Starting with scrap

There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing, wearing multiple layers of clothes and, like my mother, I was bingeing on food. Of course I was still very much a lonely unsupported child myself when I got pregnant - one who had never been nurtured or mothered and as such I struggled with the responsibilities of parenthood.