Poverty Quotes - Page 2

Opportunity comes to everyone it depends on you whether you take it or leave it. Learn to take risks and play hard because at the end you'd be thankful for your struggle.

Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.

You are actually reproducing yourself when you invest your life.

My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.

Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others, he finds peace, freedom, sorrow and love.

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

A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind of woman except — very rarely, when he can raise a few shillings — a prostitute.It is obvious what the results of this must be: homosexuality, for instance, and occasional rape cases. But deeper than these there is the degradation worked in a man who knows that he is not even considered fit for marriage. The sexual impulse, not to put it any higher, is a fundamental impulse, and starvation of it can be almost as demoralizing as physical hunger. The evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually. And there can be no doubt that sexual starvation contributes to this rotting process. Cut off from the whole race of women, a tramp feels himself degraded to the rank of a cripple or a lunatic. No humiliation could do more damage to a man’s self-respect.

It is much better to live in poverty and graduate to the middle class, than it is to live as a king and be demoted to the middle class.

Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills, and talents.

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.

If you don’t want to just live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

If you don’t want to regret your life late, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth called time.

Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

Measure your life by products and by the results you produce.

Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.

Many people will often say you are a Smart, you are a Genius, give them a chance and they will say it enough for you to start believe it. When you get to that realization, Nothing will ever hold you back

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.

You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.

Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot. I dare you to maximize your life.

You get a clearer picture of what your life should be like in the place of solitude.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy

Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.

The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

We are all a product of incidence.

It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here that you should no longer sell your life but invest it into fulfilling the purpose for which you were born.

You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity.

Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area of calling.

No man has become world's richest man because he wasted his time in the pub in the cinemas watching movies and sports.

To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products through hard work.

The way to becoming the best in your area of calling is to invest more time than anyone else in that area of life.

When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.

When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.

The race we are in is a race against the disappearing life.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

Whatever problem you have can be solved through solitude.

Love wins when reflections win over reflexes.

You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents.

Most people end their race here on earth with no products to show for all their time they spent on earth.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

It is real hard work that will release your potential,

Time is wealth from which everything comes.

Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bombs. Let the silence rise from empty bellies and surge from broken hearts. The silence of the hidden and forgotten. The silence of the abused and tortured. The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned. The silence of the hanged and massacred. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so the hungry may eat my words and the poor may wear my words. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so I may resurrect the dead and give voice to the oppressed. My silence speaks.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'especially when he knows he's dying for a good cause -- indeed, that he's saving the whole world and then going straight into the best place in Heaven? What's that compared to the suffering I've had to put up with for months and years with the house full of children, when for many whole nights I've shrieked with pain unceasingly and without relief, and I'll soon be dead, and that without having anything to die for; and there'll be no heavenly Kingdom for me, for I know the children will go on crying when I'm dead, and swearing and quarrelling, and begging for milk they can't get.

The key to your greatness is under your control.

How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present

To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.

Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground.