Poor Poverty Quotes

Poor Poverty Quote of the day

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

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.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.

You can go with an empty pocket and come back heavily loaded if you allow your passion to escort you!

Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will.

Christie: “Even if he is – aren’t you the one who’s always saying we shouldn’t trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor?