POVERTY QUOTES

• We were not created to live miserable lives of course but Christianity is not a poverty-relief program.
  ~ Blessing T Masenga ~
• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
• However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Corruption drinks Poverty.
  ~ Albert Boima ~
• Poverty is unnecessary.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
  ~ Frederick Douglass ~
• Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• No Glory in poverty
  ~ Theophilus Katon Chidonku ~
• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
  ~ Jeremy Rifkin ~
• A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
  ~ Lewis Mumford ~
• A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
  ~ Lewis Mumford ~
• Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
  ~ Mike Huckabee ~
• Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
  ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
• The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
  ~ King Hussein I ~
• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
  ~ Willie Nelson ~
• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
  ~ Harry Browne ~
• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
  ~ Harry Browne ~
• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
  ~ Harry Browne ~
• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
  ~ Harry Browne ~
• In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
  ~ Isabel Allende ~
• In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
  ~ Isabel Allende ~
• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
  ~ Wendell Berry ~
• Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.
  ~ Dionne Warwick ~
• Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.
  ~ Dionne Warwick ~
• There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
  ~ Andrew Cuomo ~
• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
  ~ Kin Hubbard ~
• It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
  ~ Kin Hubbard ~
• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
  ~ Mae West ~
• The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
  ~ Alan Watts ~
• The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
  ~ Alan Watts ~
• The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
  ~ Alan Watts ~
• For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
  ~ Iain Duncan Smith ~
• For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
  ~ Iain Duncan Smith ~
• Education is the weapon to fight poverty. You need it!
  ~ Oyinda Oladeinde ~
• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
  ~ Kofi Annan ~
• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
  ~ Kofi Annan ~
• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
  ~ Kofi Annan ~
• If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
  ~ Jane Fonda ~
• Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
  ~ Jane Fonda ~
• It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
  ~ Cat Stevens ~
• The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
  ~ Shimon Peres ~
• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
  ~ Shimon Peres ~
• My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
  ~ J. K. Rowling ~
• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
  ~ Mother Teresa ~
• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
  ~ Mother Teresa ~
• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
  ~ Mother Teresa ~
• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
  ~ Mother Teresa ~
• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
  ~ Madeleine Albright ~
• In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.
  ~ Jesse Jackson ~
• To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
  ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~
• My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
  ~ Aung San Suu Kyi ~
• My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
  ~ Aung San Suu Kyi ~
• My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
  ~ Aung San Suu Kyi ~
• A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
  ~ David Hume ~
• A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
  ~ David Hume ~
• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
  ~ Woody Allen ~
• We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.
  ~ Peter Singer ~
• Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
  ~ Muhammad Ali ~
• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
  ~ Bill Cosby ~
• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
  ~ Orison Swett Marden ~
• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
  ~ Orison Swett Marden ~
• To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
  ~ Thomas Paine ~
• And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.
  ~ Simon Mainwaring ~
• We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
  ~ Simon Mainwaring ~
• Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.
  ~ Simon Mainwaring ~
• It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
  ~ Joel Osteen ~
• I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
  ~ Paul Ryan ~
• Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
  ~ Jerry Saltz ~
• Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
  ~ Jerry Saltz ~
• People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
  ~ Jim Carrey ~
• My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
  ~ Jim Carrey ~
• There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
  ~ Hillary Clinton ~
• There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
  ~ Hillary Clinton ~
• There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
  ~ Hillary Clinton ~
• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
  ~ John F. Kennedy ~
• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
  ~ John F. Kennedy ~
• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
  ~ John F. Kennedy ~
• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
  ~ Barack Obama ~
• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
  ~ Barack Obama ~
• I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
  ~ Bill Gates ~
• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
  ~ Aristotle ~
• Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
  ~ George Bernard Shaw ~