Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

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.

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

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

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

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.

Grind the faces of the poor.

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 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.

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.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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

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

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!

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

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 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 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.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of 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 now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

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 unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : "As an artist, you don't make money." I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.