Poverty Quotes

True poverty does not come from God.
Yiddish Prove
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He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
Author Unknown
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
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
Greek
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
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
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
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 greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
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