Poverty Quotes - Page 13

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.

For you to be great, you must learn to convert every second of your life.

Greatness is never achieved in the realm of dreams but in the realm of reality and the only way to achieving that greatness is to convert your time into added value to yourself and then to others.

Cut your goals into tiny units of work and think only about one unit at a time.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.

Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life.

Nothing could be given birth to without solitude.

The only thing that is limiting me and you from attaining anything in life is what we know or what we don’t know.

Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores.

Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.

The Lord is concerned about the poor receiving justice and that they are not neglected or cheated.

Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.

Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.

Your greatness is directly proportional to how much time you are ready to invest into fulfilling your purpose.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people .

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while the other did not.

Life is all about conversion.

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

Do not allow your life to keep pouring out and reducing without converting it to tangible products.

Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people.

One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude.

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. [Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood]

The world does not know how to concentrate on working.

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

You cannot become great by working for salary.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they were called to do..

Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours...

If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.

You should actually be fighting to have a time of solitude because through it, you can make yourself great.

It is either you are converting time into a product or into a value chain or you are killing, wasting and throwing away your life.

What will support you consists in your gift, so until you find yourself you will be poor

People who understands how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

You can be the most productive person in your area of your calling if you can just isolate yourself and learn to convert your time into products.

The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence.

There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting that skill.

Time consciousness is the key to time conversion.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

Take care of others now, so they can take care of you in future.

You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

No solitude, no birth.

For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know how to properly use the currency of time.

You were created to invest your life into your promise land, your area of calling.

There is no one who was supposed to come to this world and leave empty.

I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

Your true love for God is demonstrated through your ability to hold onto your faithfulness in the midst of Prosperity and Poverty, Happiness and Hardships, Sickness and Success; in whatever is Appealing or Appalling!

I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day and you must build your own.

Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge.

Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.