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“What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.”

Ideas Inspiration Motivation Community Poverty Aids Shut Up

Author:Ernesto Sirolli

“Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.”

Ifs Needs Enough Shows Feelings Young Motivation Poverty Talent Hunger Recognition Persistence Arrogance Insatiable Insatiable Hunger

Author:Leon Uris

“We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.”

War Form Motivation Winning Poor Poverty India Army Soldier Behalf We Will Win

Author:Narendra Modi

“Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.”

People Knows Years Children Inspiration Seems Motivation Poverty Millions News Rate Saved Each Day Mortality Nuts

Author:Edward de Bono

“I've been doing music for many years and after a point what is the motivation that drives you to compose and to do stuff? I did this song for the U.N., a fighting for poverty anthem. That's when I realized that I could do a foundation. And when I started the foundation, it was basically to fight poverty and to help - that kind of stuff.”

Years Kind Helping Motivation Song Fighting Stuff Poverty Foundation I Realized Anthem

Author:A. R. Rahman

“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”

People Motivation Choices Poverty Fit Taxes Patriotic Loaded

Book:Collected Writings

Source: Collected Writings

“Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.”

Inspirational Motivational Lying Motivation Responsibility Poverty Ethics Slavery Riches Sickness Consent

Author:Richard Bach

“Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.”

Sometimes Problem Inspiration Motivation Poverty Solutions Slums Favelas

Author:Eduardo Paes

“[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.”

People Ends Problem Inspiration Motivation Cities Poverty The End Of The Day Gathering

Author:Eduardo Paes

“The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.”

Used Mother Motivation Poverty Driving

Author:Pat O'Shane