Poverty Quotes - Page 5

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

Real intimacy is a product of solitude.

Your greatness is directly proportional to how much time you are ready to invest into fulfilling your purpose.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become prosperous in a couple of generations.

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

Those who possess time are often not aware of its value.

Our current contempt for poverty stems from information overload--this is the enabler---our over education as privileged people-- perhaps the real culprit--and our secret assurance that we ourselves owe no one anything beyond the exhausting daily round. We will defend our lack of idealism to anyone and be horrifyingly well received in this age. Indeed, many so called financial "philosophies" are in fact nothing more than elaborate justification for one petty selfishness after the next.

Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value.

Never settle for less. Others may see it as lacking or not having. But Others also see it as having standards

Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job.

The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfilment of your purpose.

If you don’t want to regret your life late, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

If you will invest the maximum amount of time in hard work, polishing and building your own land of promise, you will become great in life. You will become exceptional. You will become a specialist and the world would want to reckon with you.

The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that time passes by every second and minute.

Solitude time is a period when you actually turn your time into some treasure.

If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.