Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

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

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

Your choices run out when your money does.

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Aaron was wearing a T-shirt that was practically transparent with washing and sweatpants with a hole in the knee. His blond hair stuck up like duck fluff and he looked barely awake. Tamara looked tense. Her hair was carefully braided and she wore pink pajamas that said I FIGHT LIKE A GIRL across the front. Under the words was a screen print of cartoon girls executing deadly ninja moves.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

A big reason for their hesitancy to become recording artists was that during their time at WBAU the Spectrum camp has been observing the harsh realities of the developing rap game. Inflated egos meant that they had to treat the upcoming acts who played at their gigs like kings. But after the shows the Spectrum crew would then drive those acts back to the same impoverished neighbourhoods that they'd always lived in. Driving supposed rap stars back to the projects made an impression. 'None of them were really getting paid off records so I was like, "Damn",' is how Chuck assessed the situation.

A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

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

According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he percentages in other American cities such as Miami (28.5), Los Angeles (22.1), Atlanta (24.4), and New York City (21.2).

According to world statistics, 99% of people who have won millions of dollars in the lottery become even poorer in the cause of time

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with. And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him. It is NOT where you come FROM that matters, But where you are GOING.

A child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic, and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling. Punishment (or the threat of it) for this lack of interest is unlikely to bring the best out of him.

Actualize the dreams now and don’t procrastinate them for the future. Use every second, minute and hour that you have to fulfill life’s calling, your purpose, and your dreams.

A dinner sponsored by a debt spoils the next day.

A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.

Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland! Africa, your people cries for you! Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.

Afrika si maskini! Uongozi wake ndiyo maskini.

After deciding the territory you want to rule over, the next thing you must do is to invest your time into developing yourself and becoming the best in that territory.

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.

A Life of poverty is not as bad as it looks through the wealthy person's eye, neither is the life of the wealthy is as delightful as it looks through the poor's.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

All doors have closed, poverty is so harsh.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have.

All men have been given time, but only a few men know its value.

All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.

All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems that have life-altering consequences—and a group of intelligent professionals brought together to advise and educate stakeholders in need of help ought to be able to do so without behaving like a middle school drama queen.

All the money in the world will not lift you out of spiritual poverty.

All these people talk about hoarding, the pack-rat way she (Vivian Maier) went through life. Watching, I couldn't help but feel their reactions were at least partly about money and social status; about who has right to ownership and what happens when people exceed the number of possessions that their circumstance and standing would normally allow. I don't know about you but if I was asked to put everything I own in a small room in someone else's house, I might well look like a hoarder. Although neither extreme poverty nor wealth makes one immune to craving an excess of possessions, it's worth asking of any behavior presented as weird or freakish whether the boundary being transgressed is class, not sanity at all.

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.