Muhammad Yunus Quotes

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

Muhammad Yunus

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• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

  Randy West
  • Experience
  • Never Forget

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Nature
  • Amazing
  • Positive

• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Idiot

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Life
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Look
  • Face

• I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • May
  • Day

• I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Help
  • Parents
  • First

• The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • You
  • Deep

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Country
  • Why
  • Teach

• Coal is a portable climate.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Power
  • Light
  • Air

• All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Creature
  • Evolve
  • Capacities

• To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the court or the balls. But those are excuses. You have to accept when you don't play well and somebody else does.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Excuses

• I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

  

  Christopher Gadsden
  • Trust

• While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Changing
  • Creates

• He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Character
  • Horse
  • Prodigious

• People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Dying
  • Budget
  • Aid

• I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

  

  Muhammad Yunus
  • People
  • Believe
  • Economic