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Poverty Quotes

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

Live Poverty Week Know Never Like

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Society Violence Poverty Look Many

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

Matthew Desmond

America Poverty Resources Something

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

Money Man Eating Poverty Growing

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

Money Financial Better Poverty Only

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.

Father Poverty Country Out System

Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.

Health World Enough Poverty Born Us

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Creativity Believe Poverty Down Will

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

Winnie Byanyima

Poverty Injustice Rooted

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

Orison Swett Marden

Thought Poverty Bad Poor Conviction

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

Confidence Someone Poverty You Need

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

Charles Stanley

Eyes Peace Poverty Find Way Him

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Pranab Mukherjee

Poverty India Lift Poor Modern Must

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

Mahathir Mohamad

Poverty Poor Point Currency Like

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Good People Help Poverty Lift Out

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.

Life Baby Poverty Born Forget She

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

Man Poverty Disgrace Inconvenient

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Love Poverty Things All Things

It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.

Time Commitment Building Poverty Us

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Goals Poverty Focused Global Set

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Quality Progress Poverty Will Aid

My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

Karin Slaughter

Family Father Children Food Poverty

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

America Poverty Result Over Without

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Sad Money Wise Poverty You Well

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