Poverty Quotes

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.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

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

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

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.

I know what poverty is.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

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.

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.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.