Narendra Modi Quotes

The government is committed towards helping the poor and neo- middle class with the success mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. It is in line with government's vision to create a skilled and digital India.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

There is a section of our population in South Africa that you can't expect to get integrated in the economy of its own. These are people without skills and that will include young people who might very well have matric certificates, but don't have the skills to be absorbed in the economy. So we need to target people like those in a special way, in a focused way so that they have the skills and the capacity to participate in the economy. That requires special programmes.

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

We need to make India capable, prosperous.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts.

The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.