Poverty Quotes

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

Information without execution is poverty.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

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.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to