Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Goals help you overcome short - term problems.

Goals help you overcome short term problems.

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Idleness among children as among men is the root of all evil and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.