Poverty Quotes - Page 16

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

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.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.