Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Related Quotes:
- Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury – Jeanette Winterson
- Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone’s eyes can mesmerize me for years! – Avijeet Das
- Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly. – Hippocrates
- Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point. – Auliq Ice
- How can we read when people need our help? It’s a luxury. A stupid luxury. – Gary Shteyngart
- The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right. – Vikas Swarup
- Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. – Coco Chanel
- Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul – Angelica Hopes
- Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The grandeur of a profession is…above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships. – Antoine de SaintExupry
- There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation. – Tessa Dare
- In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard. – Jawwad Zafar
- If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. – Elizabeth I
- There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. – Morrissey
- You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty. – Rumman Bin Sadiq
- A borrower who doesn’t returns is a beggar. – Amit Kalantri
- Shyness is just egoism out of its depth. – Penelope Keith
- At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. – Morinosuke Kawaguchi
- As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. – Walter Benjamin
- Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar – Oromis – Christopher Paolini
- Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes. – Amit Kalantri
- Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser. – George RR Martin
- This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly. – Bridget Asher
- Success not maintained is worst than Poverty inheritted. Riches without maintenance is worst than inheritted Poverty. – Patience Johnson
- The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision. – Onyi Anyado
- A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan
- Poverty without a people’s government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. – Holly Near
- The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. – David Berliner