Poverty Quotes - Page 4

Those who are great know a secret that the remaining lot do not know.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Conquer your territory through time conversion.

You must understand that all great things come through time conversion.

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them.

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much about that. We dumb working folk were clubbed into submission long ago, and now require only proper medication for our high levels of cholesterol, enough alcohol to keep the sludge moving through our arteries, and a 24/7 mind-numbing spectacle of titties, tabloid TV, and terrorist dramas. Throw in a couple of new flavours of XXL edible thongs, and you've got a nation of drowsing hippos who will never notice that our country has been looted, or even that we have become homeless ourselves.

He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.

The truth is that most of us are not our best selves.

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

We live in a society where every business has a huge scope. Even if you open a shop selling snakes people will buy it. Thinking they will direct them to their neighbors house.

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

Do not watch your life melt away just like that for life is too precious to waste it doing nothing.

You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.

Whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it, you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.

Become great by converting your time into quality product.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,We kneel before our rightful lord;The lord of all, the money-god,Who rules us blood and hand and brain,Who gives the roof that stops the wind,And, giving, takes away again;Who spies with jealous, watchful care,Our thoughts, our dreams, our secret ways,Who picks our words and cuts our clothes,And maps the pattern of our days;Who chills our anger, curbs our hope,And buys our lives and pays with toys,Who claims as tribute broken faith,Accepted insults, muted joys;Who binds with chains the poet’s wit,The navvy’s strength, the soldier’s pride,And lays the sleek, estranging shieldBetween the lover and his bride.

Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

Once you have produced your best self, then you will be able to produce new seeds and fruits after your kind.

Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.

Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.

Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.

Convert every passing time into products.

If you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor to you.

When you invest your time you will notice that you are being fruitful and that you are multiplying your life.

Rich peoples kind words doesn't fill up the empty stomach of poor people

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Time melts away in every passing moment.

If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product.

When you choose your own area of calling and purpose, and you are working and converting your life into that your area of calling, you are not being compensated with salary. You become the boss over your own life.

Hunger is insolent and will be fed.

Begin to think of how you could maximize the time you have through hard work and through concentration.

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

The world does not give money to those who spend 24hrs church everyday praying for financial miracles.

To allow your life varnish into vanity without reproducing it would mean to live a wasted life.

Vacation time is the best time to do solitude because you could just take two weeks of it or one week of it and just isolate yourself. And when you isolate yourself, you can just begin to convert that time of vacation into any product you want.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion.

No man can be skillful without first investing his time into relentless rehearsals.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

Greatness is a product of time.

Stop selling your life for peanuts.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.