Poverty Quotes - Page 8

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

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.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

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

Ikechukwu Izuakor

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

Ikechukwu Izuakor

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage.

Ymatruz

What will support you consists in your gift, so until you find yourself you will be poor

This time is very important in your life because God wants to lift this generation from failures, poverty, and unbelief

Poverty is the origin of invention

When you invest your life, you reproduce your life.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love — poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that I learned to dream, to imagine a different life, to realize potentials and probabilities other than those of the painful, poverty-mired existence I found myself in as a child. With a book I could hide in a corner, safe from the heavy hand and belt of my stepfather, and for a while not worry about where our next meal would come from, or where we would be sleeping that night, or when my mother would break and have to be sent yet again to the mental institution. Books, for me, we tiny life rafts that I clung to desperately.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

The secret of all greatness is to not allow time diminish without converting it into a product of greatness.

To waste time is to waste life.

Invest your time and buy greatness with it.

Greatness is a product of time.

Hard work is the secret of being a genius.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work, everything else goes to waste.

If you do not work hard, nothing works.

Grace is released more abundantly as you work.

Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.

I also realize that hard work is the only way I can express all that I carry within me.

Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play as well.

The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.

The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.

The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while the other did not.

You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion.

You are not supposed to be here in this world and not leave something for which you could be called great.

Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.

You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.

Time melts away in every passing moment.

As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it.

Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time.

Everything you have is bought by the currency of time.

Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.

Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work everything else goes to waste.

Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time

It is the time that delivers greatness to people .

Everybody, including you, potentially can be great.

Greatness can only brought through time.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people.

If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.

Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.

If you truly desire to be great, you must understand time management.

It is real hard work that will release your potential.

In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.

Greatness is born out of proper time management.

Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.

In order to become great, one must understand the secret of time conversion.

The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.

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