Poverty Quotes
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.Henry Fielding
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
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.Mae West
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.Horace, Odes
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.Groucho Marx
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
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
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.George F. Gilde
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.Plato, The Republic
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.D. A. Battista
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.Japanese Prove
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
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
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.Kahlil Gibran
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
Give me neither poverty nor riches.Proverbs 30. 8 Bible
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
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Greek
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
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
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 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
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
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.Jewish Prove
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
