Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Grind the faces of the poor.

Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

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

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.