Brian Tracy Quotes

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

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

I want to work for the poor in my country.

We've got to take care of the poor.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty

Let’s make the poor richer.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

I am most supportive of organizations whose goal is to increase the living situation of those less fortunate than myself.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

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

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.