Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Poverty. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Poverty Quotes And Sayings by 90 Authors including Rafik Schami,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,Colin Powell,David Bornstein,Sunday Adelaja for you to enjoy and share.
Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them. -- Rafik Schami
The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger -- Colin Powell
Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. -- David Bornstein
You attract poverty when you lack value for time -- Sunday Adelaja
Poor minds , its a Poverty nation. -- Rudzani Ralph
Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival. -- Ann Cotton
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. -- Adam Smith
Complaint is poverty. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal would come from could I give myself up to ignoring that next meal; I could think of other things. -- Helen Westley
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root. -- Robert Kennedy
One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them. -- Jim Stanford
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause! -- Walt Whitman
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. -- Benjamin Mkapa
There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Poverty is a symptom - of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions. -- Steven D. Levitt
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity. -- James Gustave Speth
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. -- Pope Benedict Xvi
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. -- Pope Francis
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it. -- Dorothy Day
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it. -- Rohinton Mistry
There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty. -- Joe E. Lewis
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. -- Heinrich Heine
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. -- Kathleen Blanco
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged. -- Russell Simmons
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other. -- Gregory David Roberts
One of the central issues in the world population crisis is poverty. -- Carl Sagan
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty -- Ela Bhatt
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. -- Antonio Porchia
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty. -- Edith Wharton
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it -- Colin Powell
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure. -- Hosea Ballou
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. -- Stuart Wilde
It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty. -- Pearl S. Buck
Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty
the shame of being thought poor
it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves. -- William Cobbett
We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else -- Mother Teresa
We must start talking differently about poverty
and start doing something differently. -- Gary Haugen
Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition. -- Pope Francis
As massive numbers of homeless, hungry, unemployed, drug-addicted, illiterate, and mentally ill people vanish behind its walls, the social problems of extreme poverty, homelessness, hunger, unemployment, drug addiction, illiteracy, and mental illness become more ignorable, too. -- Maya Schenwar
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess -- Mother Teresa
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. -- Jimmy Dean
Poverty is a great equalizer -- John Grisham
Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind
is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is
no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward
poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain. -- Suze Orman
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all. -- Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. -- George Bernard Shaw
Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Disempowered and backward in social and economic -- Anonymous
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it -- George Bernard Shaw
The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Poverty calls us to sow hope ... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures. -- Pope Francis
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown. -- Ambrose Bierce
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -- Mother Teresa
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. -- William Hazlitt
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. -- Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa
Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death. -- Anthony Liccione
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating. -- Amelia Barr
Poverty is everywhere, Zarish. People should have the courage to get out of the vicious circle of it. -- Sara Naveed
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. -- Saadi
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty. -- Jeb Bush
Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. -- Martin Amis
People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. -- J.k. Rowling
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders. -- Winnie Byanyima
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things -- Benjamin Franklin
My pop always said poverty fucks with you... makes you think you can do things you really can't and start selling your soul for things that are priceless. -- J.j. Mcavoy
People with a poverty mindset remain poor and usually it is because of the fears in their mind. They tie up their energy in with the lack of money. -- Hina Hashmi
Poverty is the mother of invention -- Sunday Adelaja
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is of no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, the poor, the sick, in children. -- Pope Francis
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind. -- Moss Hart
P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency -- Ivan Illich
Poor people have poor habits. -- Robert T. Kiyosaki
Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude. -- Rita Gonzalez
Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education. -- Mohnish Pabrai
Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them. -- Matthew Ashimolowo
Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere! -- Rose Pastor Stokes
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. -- Aristotle.
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. -- Kofi Annan
There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come ... . We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them. -- Madsen Pirie
The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it. -- Dolly Parton
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. -- Jane Jacobs
The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. -- Wallace Stevens
Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages. -- Judith Merkle Riley
There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way. -- Catherine Ponder
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money ... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. -- Alan Watts
If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it. -- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze! -- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing. -- Rumi
Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things. -- Damian Marley
