Poverty Quotes - Page 12

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

Complaint is poverty.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

Grind the faces of the poor.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty