Top 100 No Poverty Quotes
#1. Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.
Bertolt Brecht
#4. No poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared - but there, the deficiency was considerable.
Jane Austen
#5. If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin
#6. Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#7. There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.
Ryan Dunn
#8. By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#9. Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
Sherman Alexie
#10. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#11. Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.
Stephen Richards
#12. For the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indiferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#13. One thing is certain: Existence is overflowing. With everything it is luxurious. It is not a poor existence, no. Poverty is man's creation.
Osho
#14. There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.
Roger Chamberlain
#15. We see no reason why a sustainable world needs to leave anyone living in poverty. Quite the contrary, we think such a world would have to provide material security to all its people.
Donella H. Meadows
#16. Every intelligent man saw the poverty that would follow the destruction of the beaver, but there were no chiefs to control it; all was perfect liberty and equality.
David Thompson
#17. When we pray "as it is in heaven," we are saying that as heaven has no sickness, poverty, disasters, so it is on earth.
Paul Silway
#18. The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree.
Michael Shaara
#19. Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#20. No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.
M.F. Moonzajer
#21. Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.
Robert Higgs
#22. Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
Napoleon Hill
#23. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
Thomas R. Kelly
#24. We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Paul Hawken
#25. No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Jon Corzine
#26. No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.
Robin Hobb
#27. Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty
Jordan Belfort
#28. Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
John F. Kennedy
#29. Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#30. Well-being and need are purely relative concepts. There is no such thing as poverty in itself, suffering in itself, unhappiness in itself. All is relative.
Alan Lightman
#31. Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.
Henning Mankell
#32. Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.
Mark Ruffalo
#33. The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
Suze Orman
#34. Poverty's no sin, we mustn't omit to point that out.' This also turned out to be true: the fair-haired young man admitted it at once, and with unexpected haste.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#35. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty - to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.
Jerome K. Jerome
#36. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Helder Camara
#37. Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
Proverbs 31:7
Anonymous
#38. Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.
Jennifer Worth
#39. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Henry David Thoreau
#40. The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.
Murray Kempton
#41. Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
Mason Cooley
#42. Let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything!
William Gibson
#43. That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.
George Gissing
#44. If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone - there is no partiality.
Robert Collier
#45. That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
Seneca The Younger
#46. When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.
Vivek Shanbhag
#47. In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#48. There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.
Tom Morrison
#49. Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
Aidan Gillen
#50. Will you stay here? No. Will you go back? You can't. We must, therefore, go on. That's is our only hope.
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.
Poverty, sicknes, and death are evils; but the worst of all evils is unrequited love.
James De Mille
#51. You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
Chris Hughes
#52. Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
Juvenal
#53. If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are subjects of shame." No:
Henry David Thoreau
#54. All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
#55. Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul Farmer
#58. There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. Henry
#59. I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say?
Alex La Guma
#60. 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
#61. The point where you become free not to kill, not to exploit, not to destroy, not to compete, because you are no longer afraid of death or the devil or poverty or failure. If you discover this nakedness, you'd better keep it private. People don't like it.
Thomas Merton
#62. Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.
Annie Lennox
#63. What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.
Winnie Byanyima
#64. Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?
Robert Ardrey
#65. A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
James Payn
#66. His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.
Kiran Desai
#67. You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.
Mary Stewart
#68. Apathy is to allow another to determine your fate, and there can be no greater poverty.
Hadrian Bradley
#69. God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.
William MacDonald
#70. Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
Samuel Johnson
#71. The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.
George Orwell
#72. Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.
Angelina Love
#73. In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.
Dan Baum
#74. Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.
Barack Obama
#75. 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.
Mother Teresa
#76. When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty.
Sherwood Anderson
#78. We all have a stake - equally. Because if we do not save the environment and save the Earth, then whatever we do in civil rights or in a war against poverty will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction and the brotherhood of the grave.
James Farmer
#79. When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice could furnish.
("The Generalissimo's Butterfly")
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#80. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.
Thucydides
#81. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#82. Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.
Shane Claiborne
#83. I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Muhammad Yunus
#84. It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
Jose Mujica
#86. It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty ... I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.
Jeffrey Sachs
#87. 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
#88. It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor ... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
Aristotle.
#89. No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
Mark Twain
#90. Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
Andre Gide
#91. No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.
H.L. Mencken
#92. Stop preventing philosophers from possessing money; no one has condemned wisdom to poverty. I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.
Seneca.
#93. Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith
#94. There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they
have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy ... we strongly
resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European
public.
Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
#95. Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#96. If no sing, all youth condemned into poverty. Denied possible advancement and self-realization
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
Henry Louis Gates
#98. Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.
Keri Hulme
#99. [ ... ] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.
Osamu Dazai
#100. There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
Tony Blair
