Poverty Quotes - Page 2

Your gifts, talents, and calling will help you to know what you must do.

Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.

Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.

Our goals and objectives are supposed to be well planned out in our minds.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time. It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value. Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon be reckoned among the great in your society.

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.

If there is anything you need in life that you haven’t gotten, it is because you are yet to pay for it via the currency of time.

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

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M" is silent.

Don’t just remain that accidental product.

Everything comes out of time.

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

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.

It is from your time that wealth is produced.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

We are strengthening by different experiences in life;Sad times, happy moments.Poverty, riches.Failure, success.Troubles, good times.Losing, winning.

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

If you don’t want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!

If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.

To see time and life correctly , you must begin to access life as seconds, as minutes and as hours.

In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and hence have a higher chance of receiving innovative ideas and concepts.

Do not waste time for that is equal to wasting life.

No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night.

Greatness can be bought with the currency of time.

When you invest your life, you reproduce your life.

Invest your time and add value to your life because that is the only way to greatness.

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Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror...

Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will.

Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions.

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

Don’t just remain an accidental being.

When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues.

The quality of time you dedicate to work is what determines your greatness.

Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others, he finds peace, freedom, sorrow and love.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Poverty is no sin.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bombs. Let the silence rise from empty bellies and surge from broken hearts. The silence of the hidden and forgotten. The silence of the abused and tortured. The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned. The silence of the hanged and massacred. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so the hungry may eat my words and the poor may wear my words. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so I may resurrect the dead and give voice to the oppressed. My silence speaks.

Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

Poverty is the origin of invention

Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.

The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.

Free your mind. Disentangle your mindset from what can set your mind from your true purpose. Dare when you have to. Enjoy when it is a must. Relax when there is the need to, but, don’t spend the time. Don’t let wealth be a hindrance to fulfilling your true you. Don’t let poverty captivate your true you. Don’t let the environment engulf your true purpose; if possible flee to be free to dare. We all have excuses. Yourself is the most important factor in fulfilling your true you. Free your mind!!!

Theology alone doesn't convine anyone.Only those words which are pregnant with action, theology that is born of suffering, of struggles, of the poor--this theology is a testimony. This theology leads to conversion. (Leonardo Boff, p. 169)

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

Only through the conversion of time can greatness be bought.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

When you reproduce yourself, you don’t spend your life, you multiply it.