Quotes About Poverty

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

Take the fare from him who is wealthy, And let pass him who is poor.

Do not assess a man who has nothing, And thus falsify your pen.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Take patience as your pillow, hug poverty, discard lusts, oppose your desires and know that you are seen by God, so look at how you are.

To Javed- My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth; Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Charat Singh's generous promise had called forth that trait of servility in Bakha which he had inherited from his forefathers, the weakness of the down-trodden, the helplessness of the poor and the indigent, suddenly receiving help, the passive contentment of the bottom dog suddenly illuminated by the prospect of fulfilment of a secret and long-cherished desire.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Association with a learned one in the slums, is by far better than sitting with an ignorant person on sumptuous and luxurious carpets.

Better to be poor in possessions rather than in thoughts and your way of reasoning.

Charity is such a great idea too, but it's useless when left without education.

Donations and charities are the vaccines against the disease of poverty. But they aren't effective, because free stuff isn't meant to last any longer. Self-reliance is the only solution and the only cure.

Money, or wealth in general, is meaningless to a poor mindset.