Top Poverty Quotes

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

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...

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.

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

Millennials: We lost the genetic lottery. We graduated high school into terrorist attacks and wars. We graduated college into a recession and mounds of debt. We will never acquire the financial cushio...

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.

Greed applied is prosperity realized". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when they were still some distance away from the street where the first blind man and his wife lived, for th...

At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or w...

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pe...

The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960’s of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a w...

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure of society is arranged so that only...

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Should happiness and success be hidden, in view of the misery and poverty around. Would it be a sign of selfishness and un-intellectual behavior, if we admit to a pursuit of happiness? Could it, on th...