Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

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 founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

If the experts are right in their calculations, then we face the prospect of millions of people retiring into poverty from the American middle class in the years ahead. That has all kinds of social and economic consequences. We need to anticipate those and start tackling the problem in a constructive way.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

I just hated poverty.

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.