Overcoming Poverty Quotes & Sayings

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work. — John Boehner

Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow — Sharon Kay Penman

I am unshakable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world. — Jon Porter

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005] — Nelson Mandela

Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty. — Peter Eigen

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. — Nelson Mandela

To sleep and being able to. Rare
To sleep and deserve it. Rarer. — Saleem Sharma

Look, I'm good okay. I'm her ... " he stopped dead. The woman at the desk looked up expectantly, "uncle." His voice faded.
"Katie certainly has a lot of those, " the annoying person chirped before handing his ID back and pointing to a side door. SHe gave him a different sort of look. This one he recognized. He smiled at her. She was sort of good looking, actually. "You gay like her other uncles?" Jack laughed.
"Nope. — Liz Crowe

Plants are nature's alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive, much less manufacture. — Michael Pollan

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome. — Samuel Richardson

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. — Robin Gibb

My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert. — Carlos Santana

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU. — Vivian Amis

That's why I preach today. Do not do spite," he said. "Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object that you aim and comes back and zaps you. And you're the one who pays for it. — Isabel Wilkerson

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson

I wonder if it is possible to escape the clinches of despair; or would despair become the hunter and reclaim me as its prisoner. — Nancy B. Brewer

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being. — Jodi Picoult