Quotes About Poverty

Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him; Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!

Las personas se están preparando para el éxito cuando deberían estarse preparando para el fracaso. Fracasar es mucho más común que triunfar; la pobreza está más generalizada que la riqueza; y la desilusión es más normal que los logros.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor. Evarts Malloy was very thin. He had worked as a bus driver and he stooped a little

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.

Deadbeat dads are full of hatred, vengeance and spite. They plunge their kids into poverty, or deny them middle-class comfort, just to punish their former partners.

In prosperity, GOD tests our gratitude; in poverty, our contentment; in darkness, our faith; at all times our obedience! GOD Bless You!

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

I learned to give not because I have much...But because I know exactly how it feels to have nothing.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

The next time I find myself getting upset over something petty, I'll remember the ones who are really suffering in this world. The ones who are living in poverty, the ones who are fighting for the freedom of their countries, the ones who are being terrorized and having bombs going off around them. Those are the ones who have a right to their hurt and anger. But yet alot of these ones are amazingly humble. It puts me to shame.

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

A poor man is a living dead one.

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.