#poverty

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#lack #living #money #poverty #prosperity

How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-power #poverty #stephen-richards #wealth-creation #dreams

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #located #people #percent #persistent

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#average #counterparts #each #earn #folks

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#almost #any #constant #constant state #create

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#faith #gay #gay marriage #issue #issues

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. ↗

— Pam Grier

#circumstances #i #i came #part #poverty

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#family-planning #population-control #poverty #family

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#beggar #both #envy #guilt #his