Poverty Quotes
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
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.Kahlil Gibran
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.Plato, The Republic
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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.Mother Teresa
There is something about poverty that smells like death.Zora Neale Hurston
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.Jewish Prove
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.George F. Gilde
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.Herbert Simon, economist
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.Horace, Odes
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
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
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
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
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
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.Mother Teresa
The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.Nelson Rockefelle
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.R. D. Hitchcock
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.Kahlil Gibran
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
In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.Japanese Prove
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
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
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
Give me neither poverty nor riches.Proverbs 30. 8 Bible
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.Aristotle
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.D. A. Battista
