Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.

When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

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

You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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

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 tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

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

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 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 need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

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

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

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.

Your choices run out when your money does.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

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 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.