Poverty Quotes - Page 18

I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.

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

People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.

When you can only remember the mundane things you did but do not have any valuable products to show for your time, then you are a time spender.

If you really desire greatness, you should make up your mind to be a hard worker.

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

You can have anything you need in life, the only price you have to pay is for you to exchange your life for greatness and greatness will deliver that thing you need to you.

Everything you have is bought by the currency of time.

If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.

Solitude helps you to see life the way it is.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that time into the life that you were created to live.

Human resource is limited to the duration of his/her lifespan while time is unlimited.

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling like the one who was taken out of school, let me assure you), sentences about politics read in a newspaper while waiting for someone to come to an office, triangles and pyramids seen on the torn pages of the old geometry textbooks which every tea shop in this country uses to wrap its snacks in, bits of All India Radio news bulletins, things that drop into your mind, like lizards from the ceiling, in the half hour before falling asleep--all these ideas, half formed and half digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your head, and I guess these half-formed ideas bugger one another, and make more half-formed ideas, and this is what you act on and live with.

You must choose what you do with your time. You must not just do things because everybody is doing them.

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

Always improve on things you do better and faster.

It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.

Do not allow your life to diminish without reproducing it.

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!

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more.

Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

Our current contempt for poverty stems from information overload--this is the enabler---our over education as privileged people-- perhaps the real culprit--and our secret assurance that we ourselves owe no one anything beyond the exhausting daily round. We will defend our lack of idealism to anyone and be horrifyingly well received in this age. Indeed, many so called financial "philosophies" are in fact nothing more than elaborate justification for one petty selfishness after the next.

To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.

Greatness is born out of proper time management.

If you really want to be an effective time manager, you will have to learn to say no to other people and do so frequently.

We are all products of the failures of the people who raised us.

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.

Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death.

When I say time must be converted, what I'm saying is that seconds must be converted, minutes must be converted, hours must be converted and days must be converted.

You were born to convert the evaporating life into some impact on humanity.

It is from your time that wealth is produced, it is time that produces results and product.

Begin to invest your time into research and studies about how you could impact your world positively because only through the proper conversion of time could you become great.

When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.

One of the most important things you could actually do in life is to create the best of yourself, to create your ideal self.

You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

If you want to be among the few who rule the world, you, therefore, must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by. The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something.

Earning money from, and supporting, a system that keeps these people in poverty in the first place and then gives them some of the profits in the form of "strings-attached" aid or World Bank and IMF loans is no more ridiculous than Shell or Esso giving Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth £10,000 to help clear up the destruction that they inevitably cause. Would it not be better not to cause the destruction in the first place?

A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude of that truth. In this respect, children and women in love are born writers.

The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED.

Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.

If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.

You too can buy greatness by converting your time into greatness through hard work.

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

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

If there is anything you need in life that you haven’t gotten, it is because you are yet to pay for it via the currency of time.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

I'm a peasantI'm the muzhikA pest you're destined to play the musicAnd yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly

Every man must choose what they want to do with their time to avoid regret in the future.

To work for salary is to mortgage your life.

The greatest poverty is the poverty of the mind.

The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value of time.

The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

You will need to invest every bit of your time into your destiny and purpose if you truly desire to be great.

If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly doing one single thing in a day, you will be amazed how best you will become in that thing after a given number of years.

Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything is up to you. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing.