Overcoming Poverty Quotes

#1. Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#2. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]

Nelson Mandela

#3. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nelson Mandela

#4. In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

Katrina Kenison

#5. She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?

Francine Rivers

#6. Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Steve Jobs

#7. Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

Michael Josephson

#8. What a person believes about God determines what he or she thinks about how we got here, what our ultimate meaning is, and what happens after we die. So essentially our worldview, our perspective on life, is determined by our perspective on God.

Dave Harvey

#9. It would be a rare place for a gallop." "You would naturally think so and the thought has cost several their lives before now. You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

Joan Robinson

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

Vivian Amis

#12. She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Samuel Richardson

#13. The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Max Stirner

#14. Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

Kaniehtiio Horn

#15. Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

Peter Eigen

#16. Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

Eleanor Of Aquitaine