Quotes About Poverty

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

We must realize that our destiny is strongly linked to the destiny of the poorest on this planet.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education