Poverty Quotes

Charlotte Brontë

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

George Eliot

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler;
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Wallace Stegner

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

Wayne Chirisa

Do not work hard for the love of money; but work hard to enrich the life you love.

Martin Hopkins

Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours...

Martin Hopkins

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.

Martin Hopkins

Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

Vivian Amis

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

Joan C. Williams

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

Herman Melville

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Jeff Hobbs

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

Vern Rustsala

This is why we said 'ain't'
and 'he don't'.
We wanted words to fit
our cold linoleum,
our oil lamps, our
outhouse. We knew
better but it was wrong
to use a language
that named ghosts,
nothing you could touch.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the
Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Ernest Hemingway

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Paul Lafargue

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.

Aravind Adiga

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.. Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Muhammad Yunus

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

Colin Thompson

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Abhishek Shukla

To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.

Abhishek Shukla

Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on

Abhishek Shukla

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

Abhishek Shukla

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

Abhishek Shukla

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Mustafa Said

It is much better to live in poverty and graduate to the middle class, than it is to live as a king and be demoted to the middle class.

Major Thomas

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!

Barbara Kingsolver

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

George Bernard Shaw

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.

The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Stephen Richards

Take a rain check on poverty with Cosmic Ordering.

Abhishek Shukla

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

Abhishek Shukla

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our 'EYE' and Close our 'I

Abhishek Shukla

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That's the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

Abhishek Shukla

The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as "EGO" in our Society

Abhishek Shukla

The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED.

Abhishek Shukla

Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

Abhishek Shukla

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

Abhishek Shukla

Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise

Abhishek Shukla

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

Abhishek Shukla

It’s all about “Priorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy

Abhishek Shukla

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

Abhishek Shukla

The only principle of Success in Life :"You must be present to win.

Abhishek Shukla

No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner

Abhishek Shukla

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

Abhishek Shukla

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

Abhishek Shukla

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

Abhishek Shukla

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

Abhishek Shukla

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

Abhishek Shukla

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Abhishek Shukla

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Abhishek Shukla

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

Abhishek Shukla

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

Abhishek Shukla

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

Abhishek Shukla

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Abhishek Shukla

Life doesn't walk away, we do.

Abhishek Shukla

YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.

Abhishek Shukla

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

Abhishek Shukla

Time change - Moments don't.

Abhishek Shukla

As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS...

Abhishek Shukla

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

Abhishek Shukla

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

Abhishek Shukla

IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.

Abhishek Shukla

MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

Abhishek Shukla

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

Abhishek Shukla

For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here

Abhishek Shukla

True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true

Abhishek Shukla

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

Abhishek Shukla

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy

Abhishek Shukla

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

Abhishek Shukla

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Jean Vanier

Look at your own poverty
welcome it
cherish it
don't be afraid
share your death
because thus you will share your love and your life

Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Thomas Merton

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

E.M. Forster

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

George Orwell

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

Jonathan Kozol

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.

Susan Eaton

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

Anthony Biglan

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are strengthening by different experiences in life;
Sad times, happy moments.
Poverty, riches.
Failure, success.
Troubles, good times.
Losing, winning.

Auliq Ice

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

Paul Farmer

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Brennan Manning

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

Joe Queenan

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

Mohammad Zayer

Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on society, they are those who survive despite the odds - and when they don’t, they still represent those who tried.

Rick Bragg

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

Idowu Koyenikan

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Desmond Oshifeso

Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030

Assegid Habtewold

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

Bryant McGill

The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.

Bryant McGill

Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute, hour and day.

Bryant McGill

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

Frank McCourt

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

Victor Hugo

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

Alison Larkin

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

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