You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
True poverty does not come from God.
Yiddish proverb
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace Mann
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Saint John Chrysostom
He is poor who doesn't have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.
Jean Guehenno
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles
Poor people entertain with the heart.
Haitian Proverb
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefeller
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them.
Bill Vaughn
Come away; poverty's catching.
Aphra Behn
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
Eli Khamarov
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Eric Butterworth
Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.
Eva Burrows
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Oscar Wilde
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles Peguy
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace Mann
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
Bill Clinton
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
G. K. Chesterton
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do.
Fulton J. Sheen
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
To stop violence we have to stop poverty.
Frank O'gorman
I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
Mathieu Kerekou
I think it was excellent this meeting. Poverty reduction is vital and with the poverty initiative that we will take part in, it affects 22 percent of people in the county. That's 30,000 people.
Pete Liakakis
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
Henry Home
If you look at the images that you see on television, those images are usually of poverty. Africa is way beyond that.
Kwevi Quaye
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
James Talent
This is worst in the refugee camps, where there is the most poverty and the most frequent confrontations with Israeli soldiers.
Chris Towne
The evolution from the $1 category to the $2 category might mean a marginal improvement or nothing at all or a worsening in poverty.
John Ralston Saul
People are interconnected and their health is too. We pay a lot of attention to other risk factors for ill health: tobacco exposure, poverty. Here's another risk factor: having an ill partner.
Dr. Nicholas Christakis
We don't care if they're legal or here illegally. If they meet the poverty standard we will see them.
Luz Euribe
He is so knowledgeable about issues relating to seniors and about poverty issues. He is going to have the best insight on vulnerable populations in the state.
Richard Doran
You see evidence of poverty reduction in Argentina and extreme poverty has fallen to just 12 percent.
Anoop Singh
Born into poverty, as a 3-year-old dealing with a mother dying of breast cancer, raised by a 12-year-old sibling.
Jonathan Shapiro
The mindset of poverty is something that has to be overcome. I don't believe that those people who are living in this struggle -- I'm not saying what Bill Cosby is saying, for instance. I'm saying that it's our job to continue to give back.
Russell Simmons
It is more a change of attitude. Every investment now has to be measured in market terms against targets and expected return rather than alleviation of poverty.
Peter Walker
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
Dinah Maria Mulock
These are children who are in the 185th percent of the national poverty level. If it weren't for this program, these children would not receive these meals and they may not be able to get these same meals anywhere else.
Debbie Pleimling
After many years, the continent is showing growth that could deliver much more poverty reduction than in the recent past.
Francois Bourguignon
Medicaid is under the gun. If we have more poverty, we have more people straining the safety net.
Diane Rowland
We really don't know what the plans are for it. The concern is re-creating pockets of poverty. Every time we pass one of the housing complexes, we say we could be putting a work force in there. But at the same time, are you creating permanent housing that isn't the best way to go?
Walter Leger
The time has come to end divisions between peoples. The time has come to end the cycle of poverty, hopelessness and despair. The time has come when all those affected by this conflict must become genuine advocates for peace and no longer promoters of instability and an unhealthy status quo.
Mikhail Saakashvili
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
Tran Duc Luong
Drugs, domestic violence and poverty, each one of these things is a burden to bear. Put together, these are unbelievably difficult challenges.
Sue Jacobs
Despite the government's efforts to tackle fuel poverty, many older people will be anxious about their fuel costs and some will choose between heating and eating.
Gordon Lishman
It's a godsend to her family - it's a stabilizing event that will forever change her children's standard. It stops the poverty cycle when families are able to become homeowners.
Launa Butler
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
Alden Nowlan
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx
I feel his language is encouraging -- he seems to be discovering a reality, the same reality that I see. Now what we need to see is whether he will use the George Bush-style conviction to eliminate poverty.
Bruce S. Gordon
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Hector Hugh Munro
Good governance is essential for managing our increasingly stretched supplies of freshwater and indispensable for tackling poverty.
Koichiro Matsuura
There is very little to celebrate in the latest U.N. summit outcome document. We wanted a bold agenda to tackle poverty but instead we have a brochure showcasing past commitments.
Nicola Reindorp
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
Gerald F. Lieberman
There is a significant need for this sort of work in our county. A major portion of this community is living at or below the poverty line. We have a number of homeless in the city, too, although you may not see them.
George Lewis
For two months, young people and working people have expressed their worries and rejection of the First Job Contract that makes a period of poverty a mandatory phase for an entire generation.
Bruno Julliard
If you're living well below the poverty line, do you have a credit card to pay to stay in a motel or hotel for a few days? They were between a rock and a hard place.
Robert Harris
If you consider that poverty is about lack of opportunity what could be more restricting that being mortgaged up to the hilt so much so that even a small change in your personal financial circumstances could lead to you losing the roof over your head.
Roger Burrows
Not only generated misery and poverty but also a great social tragedy that added to institutional instability in the region, provoking the fall of democratically elected governments.
Nestor Kirchner
We are now starting to see that the costs of these diseases is huge. They not only occur in settings of poverty, but are poverty promoting as well.
Peter Hotez
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Clark Hoover
Connecticut was going through the Industrial Revolution and there were tons of jobs around. That's exactly what the Irish needed. Many of them were poverty stricken.
Neil Hogan
'Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were black.'
Cecil Williams
We are a racially structured country, one-thirds to two-thirds of African Americans are born into poverty. They are at a distinct disadvantage from the outset, and the divide between the rich and the poor only continues to grow.
Ralph Leck
I still would have had 800-900 students, 90 percent poverty and the same struggles, the same challenges, the same everything. Just less.
Doretha Edgecomb
He was challenging her to focus her efforts on waging a war on hunger and poverty. This is someone who is 89 years old, writing this powerful letter.
Nancy Brook
The family has been made fragile in Africa because of poverty and because of AIDS.
Rima Salah
This means that these 18 countries should only be the beginning, ... The World Bank and IMF should extend debt cancellation to all poor countries if they are serious about poverty alleviation.
Neil Watkins
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
Jim Wallis
Everybody is so resilient and in so much poverty. They have been dealt hardships throughout life but their spirits are up.
Gayle Gennett
It has failed to deliver on its promises to maintain peace and security worldwide and to reduce poverty worldwide, ... One cannot say that the U.N. has been a blessing in Africa.
Charles Murigande
Growth is the best antidote to poverty.
Arvind Mathew
Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.
Paul Wolfowitz
We need to do everything we can to improve morale and to place heart back into the community. I also would like to encourage other individuals, organizations and corporations to join me as we help our community address issues like poverty, illiteracy, latch key kids, gangs, drugs and divorce.
Kevin Jackson
It reveals the overlap between poverty and race in the U.S.. It also points out the deep poverty that exists in this country. We have a tremendous divide.
Bryan Fair
The job situation seems to be improving, but many people here are still living below the poverty level. The police did a wonderful job, but churches need to do more.
William Davis
If it doesn't cure cancer or solve inner city poverty, it'll be [viewed as] a disaster.
Alex Turner
Poverty in Venezuela is worse than ever. I didn't discover poverty because Chavez pointed it out to me.
Teodoro Petkoff
Never again will they (politicians) be able to say 'I didn't know that' concerning poverty because they did know that, because we're going to give them a copy of this.
Wayne Flynt
This country is much better off now than when Lagos first came in, both in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction.
Patricio Navia
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
Nicholas Johnson
It is no longer an easy place for people under the poverty line to live.
Lynn Miller
By rewarding energy efficiency and increasing taxes on dangerous and polluting forms of transport, Brown can help to combat climate change and end fuel poverty.
Stephen Tindale
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
Patch Adams
We want to actively intervene in order to create a single city for the poor and offer them an opportunity to help themselves out of poverty.
Amos Masondo
There is poverty in Connecticut. Maybe people don't see a lot of it. Sometimes it's isolated or hard to identify.
Tracy Helin
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, ... The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.
Peter Eigen
Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!
David Potts
This region is synonymous with oil, but also with unbelievable poverty.
Anyakwee Nsirimovu
In an environment of rising poverty and unemployment, it is natural that people expect their governments to focus on the basics of life, and birthdays do not fall into that category.
Professor Heneri Dzinotyiwei
I think that sometimes environmentalists can be out of touch with the reality of poverty, of the challenges that face people who have just emerged from civil war. Wildlife conservation can't happen in isolation.
Greg Cummings
Here is evidence that should prompt a sense of urgency among those responsible for aboriginal education. Low education outcomes are condemning the next generation to poverty.
John Richards
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George Gilder
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Clark Hoover
I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
Kathleen Blanco
We need a living wage in Zimbabwe.... It is the poverty datum line of Z$35 million that we are demanding for the lowest paid Zimbabwe worker.
Lovemore Matombo
If it were to become rooted in the African countryside, the consequences for a continent already devastated by hunger and poverty could be truly catastrophic.
David Harcharik
The fight to end Global Poverty goes beyond today, goes beyond this week. The Millennium Development Goals seek to put an end to extreme poverty, where people live on less than $1 a day.
Adam Phillips
The poverty and the influence of the church were very damaging. It damaged all of us emotionally. To be poor deprives you of self-esteem.
Frank Mccourt
The intention is not to set up a right-wing government. The intention is to set up an anti-poverty blocking coalition so that the social issues will remain on the agenda.
Yuli Tamir
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.
Kumi Naidoo
What we know from these high performing, high poverty, high minority schools is that these kids can do it. If you provide the support they need, if you close the opportunity gap, they can do as well as affluent and white and Asian kids.
Russlynn Ali
To them it wasn't a race issue, but their poverty that got them. It wasn't the hurricane that wiped out New Orleans, but the flooding caused when the levy broke, and the poor were in the bottom of the bowl.
Sandy Richardson
Single parenthood and poverty are about as closely related as you can get.
David Popenoe
We're breaking the cycle of generational poverty one family at a time.
Debbie Hunt
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
Kathleen Blanco
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
Leo Rosten
We already know this, certainly, and we also know that poverty and obesity are very clearly linked. These researchers are just looking at the issue again, and clarifying it and making it scientific.
Cathy Nonas
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. Donleavy
All of this stuff that is going on is inextricably related to poverty.
Ben Chavis
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.
R. D. Hitchcock
You cannot have one or two years of growth and expect people to suddenly feel better. In unequal countries, you need more growth to reduce poverty than in less unequal countries. You need at least 5 percent year after year.
Pamela Cox
All of a sudden they were the ones who had more. They realized that they have a lot of things, even material things, while the Kenyans around us really lived in poverty.
Monica Lemoine
We're trying to reduce family poverty. We don't want our children living in poverty.
Lillian Koller
We don't have enough job growth, and the right kind of job growth to pull the working-class people out of poverty.
Gerry Bradley
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
Jack Straw
It never occurred to me that anyone would buy into the notion that Mr. Bush and his supporters would actually do something about poverty and racism. Someone who believed that could probably be persuaded to make a bid on eBay to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
Bob Herbert
One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as successful at getting people out of poverty.
Cynthia Hinckley
If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
William Pitt The Younger
If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
Peter Cook
I commit myself to wipe out poverty in Israel within the next three years. We are now in a position of economic growth, where we can give back to those who are angry with me.
Binyamin Netanyahu
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
Mark Twain
This may truly be a teachable moment about the impact of poverty and race on health.
David Atkins
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
You have a lot of oil and poverty. The released resources must help the population, in particular the poorest.
Pedro Alba
The quantity of drugs, in comparison with our interdiction capabilities and our poverty, presents an enormous danger, ... Because it doesn't just involve an enormous quantity of money, but a capacity for creating violence ... and corruption.
Ricardo Maduro
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I did not expect her to be here because she would be seeing the poverty of her people and that would be a slap on the face if you were the President.
Randy David
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.
Nicholas Johnson
We painted like crazy. We tried to bring some pleasantness to their homes. There is a lot of poverty down there. There are a lot of older people, a lot of widows. The fact that we took care of their house was something they couldn't express enough thanks for.
John Batchelor
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Stuart Wilde
If they are going to rebuild, we want to do so in a wise and sustainable manner. Because of the poverty in the area, affordability is key.
Susan Henderson
The good news is that poverty is a lot lower than it was in 1993, but we went through a hell of an economic boom.
Sheldon Danziger
Newark has a significant poverty level.
Dan Montgomery
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Barbara Mikulski
What isn't on the list, and this is very important in terms of politics (and) community service, is poverty among kids, health care among kids, day care among kids, smoking, alcohol.
Robert Blendon
I'm not for obesity, I'm not for single parenthood, and I'm not for poverty. But I realize those groups are more likely to be targeted than others.
Anne Bacon
Peace can only be acquired through economic development to eliminate poverty and despair and through dialogue and understanding.
Chandrika Kumaratunga
The benevolence of donors like this has made it possible to create an oasis of learning in a continent fractured by war, poverty, hunger, AIDS, malaria and harsh living conditions.
James Salley
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
Poverty is a lagging indicator. It is sort of the last ratio that declines with an expanding economy.
Al Hubbard
Much of the root cause of that is in the early years. Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty and we feel the best way is through education.
Stanley Boynton
[The indigent poor -- those living at or below the poverty line --] are the sickest, ... the most difficult group to figure out how to get them health-care coverage, and yet they're the ones who need it the most.
Wendy Ward
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Anzia Yezierska
The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.
Pedro Noguera
Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level.
Johnny Ahtuangaruak
It is a tragic picture of national desperation where many Filipinos are hooked to a television game show, pinning their hopes on partaking of the cash prizes to ease their extreme poverty. It's not 51 pesos to a dollar. It's 70 lives to the peso.
Wilson Fortaleza
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping
It's being driven by what we call ATP -- acute time poverty. People are busy, they don't always have time to sit down and watch a show when it's scheduled.
Kaan Yigit
There are obviously some issues to face. This is not finished. I will be watching the poverty income issue. I'm concerned about the retiree issue. We've just got a lot of work to do.
Sen. Greg Bell
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes
You saw a lot of African-American faces. But what you really see is poverty – every one, white or Asian or Hispanic, can be in that position. This administration has done nothing about it.
Bob Filner
We are aware of the poverty, teacher turnover and lack of resources in that area. That will be embedded in the program.
Patricia Graham
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
Adam Schiff
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
Scottish Proverb
For Sam to come out of poverty and obscurity, to hook up with somebody like Anson ...
Malcolm White
There has not been much progress against poverty over the last three decades. Poverty rates were in the 11 to 12 percent range from 1969 to 1979.
Sheldon Danziger
Without the green revolution, we'll never be able to create our own resources and decrease poverty. Without a green revolution, we'll never really control our own environment.
Firmino Mucavele
There is something beyond handouts that can make a difference in global poverty. I believe we can make a difference. I've seen that come from loaning someone as little as $25.
Deborah Lindholm
The poverty here is real, there's absolutely no doubt about it. If you can help them gradually take those steps out of poverty, you're going to fix many things.
Pamela Atkinson
If we did that we'll go a long way towards poverty alleviation, promoting development and allowing a better life for all, for the people of both countries.
Jakaya Kikwete
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
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.
Kumi Naidoo
Besides, one seafarer can eradicate poverty of several families.
Li Zhonghua
Often times when people discuss rural health care they focus on rural poverty, ... When you look at Asheboro, we're not like that. We have to view ourselves as part of a metropolitan area.
Robert Morrison
Education, and to address poverty. Most especially because of the corruption, no to corruption -- at least, to start because it has been a system and it's affecting the entire country.
Fernando Poe, Jr.
The Quarter is going to be fine. The entire city is going to be a much better place. People have been living in poverty for generations. They don't know any better. They got into a rut, like a bad marriage, and needed to have a light shined on it. ... Truly, I think this is going to be a blessing for some of them.
Finis Shelnutt
When you subsidise poverty and failure, you get more of both.
James Dale Davidson
Money can't buy poverty.
Marty Feldman
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