Poverty Quotes - Page 3

Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis,But it's everything in life

There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love""Period

You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great.

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of worth.

Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone. Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot.

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.

To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.

For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule.

The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products.

We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth.

FLIES IN DISGUISETell me,Have youReally seenFlies in a child's eyesOr heard their hungry criesIn the middleOf the night?Don't lie.You can protest all you wantAbout peaceAnd genocide,But unless you are willingTo take beatings for your fights,Your display of trendy showmanshipSimply ain't right.Go on,Carry your useless signsAbout an issue the worldAlready abhors,But it's TRUEHeartfelt actionsThat will preventSuits andSenatorsFrom creatingAny more wars.

Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.

Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground.

Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Whatever your territory is does not matter, what matters is the amount of time you are ready to invest into it to become the king of that territory.

If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time.

Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.

Money is just time that is well converted.

Hard work is the secret of being a genius.

To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life.

If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.

So because you are converting it, you are reproducing your life that way.

Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours...

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.

You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.

On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

You can become great by multiplying yourself through time conversion into different products but that will only be possible if you understand the value of time.

You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people.

Soul work is the 'more' that we need to do to heal our souls.Soul retrieval is one more step toward balance and wholeness. The trauma of major illness, death, financial devastation, abuse, terror, and other stressors in our lives will not cease while we live and breathe. But, knowing they can rob us of our soul allows us to address those loses before or as they occur, so that we do not have to struggle to survive without that which makes us who we are.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

You are only great to the degree you impacted others with your life.

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.

Measure your life by how much of your time you have converted.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

It is a pity that every one of us desires greatness yet not many of us know what to do with our time.

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness.

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.