#poverty

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. ↗

— Anais Nin

#acted #being #come #every #fate

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#fatality #honour #humiliation #less #position

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. ↗

— Dudley North

#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#ambition #cars #clear #clothes #drive

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work. ↗

— John Podesta

#center #chapel #chapel hill #clinton #deal

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#doctors #education #floors #foundations #got

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective. ↗

— Lewis Thompson Preston

#bank #objective #overarching #poverty #would

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#chaos #come #council #desperate #ever

My mission is to eradicate poverty. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#mission #poverty