Poverty Quotes

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

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

D. A. Battista

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

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

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

Greek

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.

Japanese Prove

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

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

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

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

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Proverbs 30. 8 Bible