Poverty Quotes - Page 17

How well you run determines whether or not you will win or lose.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.

Greatness is not greater than you, you have total control over greatness.

It is easier to convert your time into products when you move away from any distractions.

Real intimacy is a product of solitude.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive.

Your territory of choice is irrelevant, time conversion is what matters.

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest

The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time. The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

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.

You are killing your life if you are not converting your time.

The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products.

Your Christian life is supposed to be about your personal relationship with God. It is supposed to be about you and God alone.

Without order in your life, you will realize that you will only be busy but without commensurate results.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

Passion is the fuel that keeps your venture going,even when income is no where to be found.

Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.

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 the job gives access to the tools of production...Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodities thus turns its unemployed into either its poor or its dependents.

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.

A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.

Everything precious comes out of solitude.

As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS...

Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn’t keep track of a child’s years when you were fighting daily to keep him from starving, as she and many other Annawadi mothers had been doing when their teenagers were young.

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time.

You can turn all your imaginations and dreams into tangible products if only you will invest your time into working hard to achieve that.

One of the most painful realizations in life is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along that you never knew you had.

Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.

Anytime that cannot be accounted for is a wasted time.

Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.

Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes, and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life.

Every second and minute that you are not sleeping should be converted, investing your life and your time into doing that thing that you were born to do.

You can only make money from a time well converted.

To be productive, you must convert every minute of your time.

Luck of money is never poverty.

Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made.

Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage.

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

You are killing your life if you are just going through the traditions and routine of church services with no product to show for it.

Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- that of the poor middle-class girl looking for a job. Only youth can engage in this struggle and survive as a vital human entity. For the other ones it is death, death of the spirit, because the pittance, the bit of bread and drink, the wisp of clothing, the flicker of fire must be begged of Business, not even as charity, but as a gracious boon in exchange for the best waking hours. It is always your money _and_ your life. Not that Business is intelligently ruthless, don't think it. Business is like a huge cretin, scuffing its great feet over the flower-beds of life while it thinks itself the most wonderful puffing billy, self-invented into the bargain.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!"Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops.""Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said."Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time.

If you can practice the rule of ten thousand hours, you will be amazed to find out how easy it is to become the best in that your area of calling.

Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

You can remodel yourself to anything you want to become.

In the end it will be your “Actions” “Convictions” & “Thoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.

Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear this, then this is exactly what will happen.