Top Poverty Quotes

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Poverty Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient...