Poverty Quotes - Page 8

Its all about perception in life, For some One minus One = One & for some its Zero.That's the only difference.

When you want to become great, you have to know what to do, I mean you must first determine what you were born to do.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

Greatness can be bought with the currency of time.

In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great.

You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude.

Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day.

Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend the most challenging schools where they are capable of succeeding? Does rent control drive up the cost of housing, depriving property owners of the same opportunity to profit as any other investor while driving down the quality and quantity of the housing stock? Do minimum wage laws reduce the number of entry-level jobs, making it harder to escape from poverty? Because compassion, by its nature, subordinates doing good to feeling good, these are questions the warm-hearted rarely pursue.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work everything else goes to waste.

If you must record some greatness in your account before you leave this earth, you must value time and understand the importance of time conversion.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.

Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.

Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.

Don’t just remain an accidental being.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future

It is from your time that wealth is produced.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that time passes by every second and minute.

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our 'EYE' and Close our 'I

From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that I learned to dream, to imagine a different life, to realize potentials and probabilities other than those of the painful, poverty-mired existence I found myself in as a child. With a book I could hide in a corner, safe from the heavy hand and belt of my stepfather, and for a while not worry about where our next meal would come from, or where we would be sleeping that night, or when my mother would break and have to be sent yet again to the mental institution. Books, for me, we tiny life rafts that I clung to desperately.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.

Begin to invest quality time. Start the conversion process and birth your products.

Money is made out of time.

You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time.

We who are rich with respect to the rest of the world must come to grips with our own poverty if we are going to make a difference. We must allow our hearts to be broken so we can make things whole once again. We must fall apart before we can build up. Anything else is not compassion. It may raise money or impress the neighbors, but it won't satisfy.

The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

The key to your greatness is under your control. You are the one in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you.

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity.

But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we hide his beauty from the eyes of the world. When we pour ourselves out for the poor—that gets the world's notice.

Stop wasting time, start investing time for that is the only way to greatness.

If you allow someone else to convert more time than you in your chosen territory, you automatically become a servant or a second class citizen in that territory and whoever it is who converted more time than you in that territory becomes your king and will lord it over you in that territory.

Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.

When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite with the time that you have.

Poverty is the origin of invention

There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth.

Dream is the realm most people live their life.

What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

If you don’t convert your time into products, you will regret it. If you don’t multiply your life, you will soon find out that your life is almost finished with nothing to show for it.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.

If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

That is a vacation! It is the best time for you to be productive because you are not being distracted by work.

When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.

Life is only worth living if it is used to produce products for the good of humanity.

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

The secret of all greatness is knowing what to do with time.

So because you are converting it, you are winning back your time.

When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.