Poverty Quotes

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

~ Neil Gaiman

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

~ Charlotte Brontë

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Woody Allen

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

~ Mother Teresa

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

~ Albert Einstein

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

~ Criss Jami

On Epicurus; He says: Contended poverty is an honourable estate. Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

~ Seneca

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

~ W.e.b. Du Bois

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

~ Milton Berle

I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don't find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they're at.

~ Delano Johnson

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

~ Colin Thompson

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.

~ Martin Luther

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

~ Brennan Manning

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

~ Thomas Merton

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

~ Maya Angelou

You don't want to have any pity on these here tramps – scum, they are. You don't want to judge them by the same standards as men like you and me. They're scum, just scum.' It was interesting to see the subtle way in which he disassociated himself from 'these here tramps'. He had been on the road six months, but in the sight of God, he seemed to imply, he was not a tramp. I imagine there are quite a lot of tramps who thank God they are not tramps. They are like the trippers who say such cutting things about trippers.

~ George Orwell

If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we hide his beauty from the eyes of the world. When we pour ourselves out for the poor—that gets the world's notice.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can come into the rest of God through solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When it comes to greatness, God doesn’t choose for man.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

~ George Bernard Shaw

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.

~ Thornton Wilder

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~ Stephen Richards

A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.

~ Tom Cooper

LIFE - Death's Very Emissary

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...

~ Abhysheq Shukla

We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment.Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

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