Poverty Quotes - Page 5

YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness.

Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it.

Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there

Life is a race. You are racing against time. Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.

The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you.

It is true that you may have lost some time in the past. You may have allowed your life melt away with your time, but the good news is that you still have the future.

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation

It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.

Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You can run away to take control of your time right now.

We are all a whole bunch of accidental products.

With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no man can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

Greatness cannot be attained by wasting time on frivolities of life.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I don’t even get eye contact. I ask her how her week is going, and she looks to her friend behind the counter as if to say: I think this creep is hitting on me. Shall we call the police?

Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

Time is needed to convert all ideas and added values into the tangible products that benefits the world.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.

Greatness is the quality of time you are able to invest into your purpose.

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

If you could realize that everything is made out of time, then you can convert your free time into anything you want.

Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude.

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

One thing is needful and that is converting your time into fulfilling your purpose on the earth.

Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.

Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show for it.

The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something.

You must fight to make sure that your life does not just disappear into thin air. It is a battle of not allowing those your seconds, those your minutes to just disappear into thin air.

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.

Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.

The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth with it before it all melts away.

Invest your life into what you were born to do.

When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends.

Your dream will only benefit humanity when you make it tangible by living it out.

We are strengthening by different experiences in life;Sad times, happy moments.Poverty, riches.Failure, success.Troubles, good times.Losing, winning.

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

There is indeed no limitation in life to anybody’s height of greatness. The only limitation that we all have is the limitation that we create for ourselves.

Greatness can only be attained through time conversion.

LIFE - Death's Very Emissary

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products.

If you desire to be great in life and live a life of no regret the number one thing you should do with time is to INVEST TIME.

Lack of money is no poverty.

Everyone thinks money is the capital needed to start up a business or any project of choice. I, however, disagree with that ideology. Money is not the capital that you need. Time is the real capital that anyone needs to start up any project.

If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love — poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.