Poverty Quotes
The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.Nelson Rockefelle
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.Lyndon B. Johnson
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.Jewish Prove
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.Author Unknown
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.Benjamin Franklin
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
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
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
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
There is something about poverty that smells like death.Zora Neale Hurston
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
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
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Greek
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
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
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.Henry Fielding
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
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
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
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.Lyndon B. Johnson
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.Juvenal, Satires
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.Plato, The Republic
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.Kahlil Gibran
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.Mother Teresa
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.Groucho Marx
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 is a weapon of mass destruction.Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
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
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.D. A. Battista
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
