Poverty Quotes

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world.

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

There is no peace in poverty

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Poverty is the lack of light.

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Patches are a nun's jewels.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.