Definition of Poverty

Poverty The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas. Related Definitions: Any, Are, As, Being, Blood, Constitute, Deficiency, Desired, Ideas, Indigence, Indigent, Need, Needed, Of, Or, Poor, Poverty, Quality, Richness, Scarcity, Soil, State, Subsistence, That, The, Want

Poverty Quotations Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa 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 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 Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. Barack Obama

Poverty Translations poverty in Afrikaans is armoede poverty in Danish is fattigdom poverty in Dutch is gebrek, armoede poverty in German is Armut {f}, verarmt, Armut {f} poverty in Latin is ieiunitas, paupertas poverty in Norwegian is fattigdom poverty in Portuguese is pobreza poverty in Spanish is pobreza, indigencia poverty in Swedish is fattigdom, armod