Poverty Quotes

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F. Gilde
Greek - painless poverty is better than embittered wealth....
Bill cosby - you can turn painful situations around through...
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
Author Unknown
Benjamin franklin - pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with...
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
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 Theresa
Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato, The Republic
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.
D. A. Battista
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
Proverbs 30. 8 Bible
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich
The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefelle
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Lydia Sigourney
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.
David Pratt
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Mrs. Sigourney
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
True poverty does not come from God.
Yiddish Prove
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Eric Butterworth
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
Mother Teresa
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
Jewish Prove
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Kahlil Gibran