Poverty Quotes

The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.

A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live

Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.

Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum, our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts, nothing you could touch.

Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with.

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.

Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does

If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know yourself, you will bury your meals and complain of poverty!

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

You can go with an empty pocket and come back heavily loaded if you allow your passion to escort you!

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

You give your way out of poverty but you sacrifice your way to wealth.

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose, ' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.

Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.

Habits are the determinant of who will be rich or be poor.

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends.

I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.

Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone.

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey

America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.

Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.