Poverty Quotes - Page 16

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.

If you really want to buy greatness with time, you must invest the quality amount of time into your purpose and land of calling. The more time you invest into your land of promise, the more productive the land becomes for you.

O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know yourself, you will bury your meals and complain of poverty!

As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it.

Choose the territory you want to conquer and invest your time into developing yourself in that area until you become the best.

You have to come to understand that your life is diminishing rapidly if you don’t convert it into valuable products.

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources.

Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done.

In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great. You must choose what territory you want to conquer.

If you do not work hard, nothing works.

You trivialize time when you don’t know what to do with it.

Convert every minute and hour of your life into perfecting your calling.

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

Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes to my aid. Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere ‘opiate of the people’ have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor. They regard the poor as the only people worth preserving from ‘liquidation’, and place in them the only hope for the human race. But this is not compatible with a belief that the effects of poverty on those who suffer it are wholly evil; it even implies that they are good. The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands – that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.

It doesn’t matter how long you live on planet earth, if by the time your whole life has evaporated, you have not solved the problems you were created to solve, then you wasted your life.

Success is built on hard work, the right hard work itself is success.

Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.

Everybody, including you, potentially can be great.

Never settle for less. Others may see it as lacking or not having. But Others also see it as having standards

You must, first of all, evolve the consciousness of being the best in whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it and you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.

Because taxpaying is seen as an emblem of civic worthiness, denying the poor the status of taxpayers has the effect of denying their political standing. Classing a large percentage of the populace as a kind of second-class citizenry is genuinely toxic for democratic norms.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that’s our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving.

There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.

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

Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include the spiritual in the form of a studied meditation upon the multidimensional qualities of the painting itself; or an extended contemplation of the scripture in the title, which in the King James Bible reads as follows: “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” The painting can also inspire a physical response in the form of tears as it calls to mind its more earth-bound aspects; namely, the very serious plight of those who truly are homeless in this world, whether born into such a condition, or forced into it by poverty or war.

Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of worth in our lifetime.

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.

You become void of products when you waste your time in religious meetings every day.

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people. Therefore if you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

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.

You have just one life here on earth and it behooves you to make the best out of it.

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

You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn’t waste your time here on earth.

Time is the greatest wealth in the world and only through conversion of time can money be made.

Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor of you.

Only when that time is converted can you produce something from it. You can only make wealth from a time well converted.

Create the best of yourself, become your best self.

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

Without work, time cannot be converted and it will waste away.

People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness with time.

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.

While others allow failure to define them, othersallow lack or abundance to define them. You cannot define yourself that way! You may have failed in the past but that is not the end of the world. You may be living inpoverty but poverty is not your destiny. Please hear me out; do not attach value to your bad life experiences. Learn from them but do not lose focus. Your focusmust be on your assignment; which is the ultimate reason for your existence.