Poverty Quotes - Page 11

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers.

It does not matter what your calling is, if you can invest all your time into it, then, greatness will become your reward.

If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

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.

We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions.The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep.It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention.

FLIES IN DISGUISETell me,Have youReally seenFlies in a child's eyesOr heard their hungry criesIn the middleOf the night?Don't lie.You can protest all you wantAbout peaceAnd genocide,But unless you are willingTo take beatings for your fights,Your display of trendy showmanshipSimply ain't right.Go on,Carry your useless signsAbout an issue the worldAlready abhors,But it's TRUEHeartfelt actionsThat will preventSuits andSenatorsFrom creatingAny more wars.

Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.

The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made.

Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.

Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.

The poor always ye have with you.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

When you waste one hour of your time, you have wasted your life.

If you want to be great, you must learn the secret of great men.

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

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

You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

For you to be great, you must make sure that every second of your life counts.

Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life.

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of."But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn’t waste your time here on earth. Generations to come should benefit from the products of your time converted.

Poverty will leave you when you are ready to welcome opportunities.

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.

If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.

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

When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.

You win when you are able to convert that time into an investment, into seeds or fruits or products of cultivating your own land or products in other people’s lives.

When you can actually monitor your passing life and be in control and be in charge of your time and making sure that you are actually converting every passing day into something, then you will never regret it.

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

Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.

The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.

Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness.

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.

Greatness is only possible, thanks to the products you are able to produce per seconds, per minutes, per hour and per day.

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.

In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved ,until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.

Karma is the balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.

Don’t live your life not knowing what to do with your time.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to gain the mastery over your talents and gifting.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.

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

Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.

It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.

I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.

To be able to convert time, you must be conscious of time.

To become the king of your territory you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your skills in that area of life.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

If you will exchange your life for greatness, if you will use the currency of time to buy greatness; then greatness will deliver to you every other thing you need in life.