poverty-quotes

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.

Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life__ craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles.

Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed woefully, for in their failures lies the secret of success as well.

Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores.

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?