P Quotes
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“Poverty must be erased by hard work.”
“Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.”
“Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.”
Source: So human
“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
“Poverty needs much, avarice everything.”
“Poverty of character is not a personality flaw,its is the bankruptcy of morals”
“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.”
“Poverty of individuals is not a final verdict”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty of others is an occasion to reach out to the poor”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty of others is an opportunity to be humane”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty of others is an opportunity to become more compassionate and serve others”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty of others is an opportunity to display nobility”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty of others is not a chance to show off and be lofty”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.”
Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate
“Poverty often puts some people below the law.”
“Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.”
“Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.”
“Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.”
“Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.”
“Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains from the rising global average income wiped out by severe declines in their relative share.”
“Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.”
“Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.”
“Poverty prevents good minds succeeding.”
Source: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
“Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy”
“Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.”
“Poverty seemed to agree with me. Grace and I were bridesmaids at Hope’s wedding, and while Grace looked fragile and ethereal and Hope was flushed and warm with love, I did contrive to look presentable.”
Source: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
“Poverty seems to be the root of all evil. Whereas the children of rich parents are spoiled daily.”
“Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.”
“Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.”
“Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.”
“Poverty starves the spirit as well as the body.”
“Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.”
“Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.”
“Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.”
“Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.”
“Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.”
Source: The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People
“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”
Source: Red ribbon on a white horse
“Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.”
Source: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
“Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.”
“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Poverty will leave you when you are ready to welcome opportunities.”
“Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.”
“Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.”
“Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.”
Source: The Aesop for Children
“Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.”
Source: Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography
“Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.”
“Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers.”
Source: The Adventures of China Iron