Quotes About Poverty

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Health without money is halfe an ague.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.