Poverty Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty. — Abhijit Naskar

Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas. — Debasish Mridha

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Peace is not the absence of poverty
But the presence of love for beauty — Debasish Mridha

When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain is a better teacher than pleasure.
Poverty is a better teacher than prosperity.
Failure is a better teacher than success.
Life is a better teacher than university. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Money Can't Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty — Sharon Law Tucker

Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The scraps of the rich are the delicacies of the poor. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy in poverty is better than misery in riches. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Someone who has a poverty consciousness, which is a mental disease, can change their habitual way of thinking if they are determined to do so and will take action. — Christopher Dines

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it's easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It's much harder - and much more needful - to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy. — David DuChemin

Terrorist groups will not, in most instances, openly recruit from universities or the well developed areas that politicians and business leaders are always focusing on. They will not flight newspaper or TV adverts, but will use belief systems riding on the back of disadvantages, poverty and problems that have remained unaddressed in particular communities, tribal and religious ideologies. They will recruit the most vulnerable to harm and attack the most vulnerable, in order to spite leaders and authorities. — Archibald Marwizi

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them. — Fernando Lachica

Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will. — Debasish Mridha

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

Poverty is economic oppression.
Tyranny is political oppression.
Oppose those who oppress others.
Support those who liberate others. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is? — Moutasem Algharati

Education is the true gift of love that can eradicate the poverty of a nation. — Debasish Mridha

As you strive for personal effectiveness and leadership excellence, there are local and global questions that you will inevitably have to face. These range from poverty, corruption, terrorism, food security, scarcity of resources and overpopulation among others. Your power and influence for significance in leadership excellence will increase in direct proportion to your ability to find effective and sustainable practical solutions to some of these real-life challenges. — Archibald Marwizi

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. — Anthony Biglan

The poorest are those who lack love, not money. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A person is bound to experience troubling doubts when attempting to forge a viable philosophy for living. When we are young, the world appears as a dream, no desire is unattainable, and no goal is impossible. We do not entertain the notion that the world will blunt our passionate aspirations, we assume that the world will yield to our resolute will. Misfortune, poverty, illness, and death crush a person's hopes, awakening us to parts of oneself and the world that we previously denied. When fate has spoken harshly we initially feel ruined, life appears as a bleak wasteland. We must then chose to accept a misery ridden existence or rally the courage and fortitude to turn our thoughts from bitterness and regrets, surrender vain notions that we are somehow special and immune from the terrors of a life when reality does not care a wit for our survival. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Poverty will leave you when you are ready to welcome opportunities. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes when you had nothing at all and it was raining and you were alone in the flat, it was wonderful to know that you could have something even though it was only a cup of black and bitter coffee. — Betty Smith

If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People often wonder why God allows hunger, poverty and war in our world. Perhaps God wonders why we allow it.
from: Quotes about God ISBN 978-1-936462-20-9 — The Prophet Of Life

It's not the poverty of material abundance but the poverty of love makes life miserable. — Debasish Mridha

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy — Munia Khan

Right now in this world, a child is dying from an ailment because its family cannot afford to buy charcoal for boiling water.
Right now in this world, a girl is striving to find firewood from trees that no more exist, and water from sources that are poisonous.
Right now in this world, a boy is out fishing in a lake rich with inedible species.
Right now in this world, a mother is drowning in heavy rainfall, to save her belongings.
Right now in this world, a man has lost his dignity because all his eff orts to save have been wiped away to poverty by unforeseen calamities.
Right now in this world, a family is starving because drought has invaded their once fertile land.
Right now in this world, a nation is planning for refugee status due to adverse climate conditions.
Right now in this world, you have a choice to help alleviate environmental problems caused by humankind. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning. — Abhijit Naskar

Death is buried there into death
Hunger strikes on its own last breath
No spine to shiver, no heart talks
At life's craving poverty mocks

From the poem 'Exhumation — Munia Khan

God,unashamedly and extremely LOVES the Poor but their Poverty,He HATES!

If this is not so,I believe there wouldn't have been a provision/exchange made by Jesus Christ,who though was rich,but for the sake of the love He has for the Poor, He became poor that through His poverty,the poor might become rich- 2Cor8:9.

DO NOT LOVE WHAT GOD HATES and HATE WHAT HE LOVES! — Richard Stearns

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest — Pradeepa Pandiyan

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

The best investment for poverty elimination is education. — Debasish Mridha

Better poetry than riches,
Better poverty than fortunes. — Stephan Attia

They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one. — Ljupka Cvetanova

You think I don't know what I want? You think I love the idea of relying on my looks for life? No! It's pathetic! In my head, I have a nice, quiet, normal job that involves me running my own business. I carry a briefcase around my office with important documents, I have a nice assistant who calls me boss, and people ask me questions - they ask for my advice because I matter! I'm important to them! I'm recognized as something more than a pretty face and a pair of legs. I have a brain and interests and thoughts about religion, and poverty, and economics. I'm not a miserable girl with a number attached to her chest, stripping her clothes off in a room full of people. — Elisa Marie Hopkins

Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The biblical preacher talks about the poor man's wisdom that saved a city but he was immediately forgotten. A poverty of ideas, contributions, uniqueness or influence, will overshadow the visibility of good potential. Keep those ideas flowing and you will not be forgotten. — Archibald Marwizi

I saw the poverty; I say the prosperity. Both have fundamental problems. — Debasish Mridha

I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression. — Henry Johnson Jr

Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity. — Archibald Marwizi

There are silent killers like poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related conditions. These remain a daily and ongoing catastrophe, but they rarely manage to achieve and sustain, prime-time headline coverage on the news. Why not report on these until someone acts on them? — Archibald Marwizi

The greatest poverty is the poverty of the mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can't afford medical care. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Poverty is bad,
but so is decadence.
Tyranny is bad,
but so is chaos.
Injustice is bad,
but so is godlessness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The African Challenge - We must end conflict in Africa. We must lead to allow the Africans to enjoy the benefits from their natural resources. We must end poverty in Africa. Every African must be educated, have access to health care and a fair chance to fulfil their dream. Preventable sickness and disease must not reduce life expectancy or rob pregnant women of a chance to continue living. Africa must develop. Africa must not depend on foreign aid. Africa must be united and governed more effectively. Africa must customize her leadership culture and philosophy in a way that gives her global relevance and respect but still remain true and authentic to herself. Will you accept the challenge? Will you be that Africa? — Archibald Marwizi

But apparently yoiu don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the "cruel irony" that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: "The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Material poverty doesn't cause
murder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does. — Derric Yuh Ndim

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity — Bernard Kelvin Clive

One does not go to Moscow to get fat. — John Updike

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Rich peoples kind words doesn't fill up the empty stomach of poor people — Mohammed Sekouty

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

The slums of one nation are the suburbs of another. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Many people have got caught up in the belief known as the "Law of Attraction." They believe that by their thoughts, affirmations, and other "attraction" exercises they will become wealthy. However, the Tanakh wisely says, "In all work there is profit, but mere talk produces only poverty." (CJB, Proverbs 14:23). Only through work it is possible to produce results that create wealth and simply talking about wealth will not produce any results. The idea that wealth can come through thoughts or affirmations is a fantasy. "A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty" (CJB, Proverbs 28:19). — H.W. Charles

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace. — Vivian Amis

You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. — C.M. Hayden