Poverty Quotes

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.
Japanese Prove
Eric butterworth - prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and...
Author unknown - he who ashamed of his poverty would be equally...
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
Plutarch - learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth,...
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
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
Proverbs 30. 8 Bible
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace, Odes
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
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
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
Jewish Prove
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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 a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran
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
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.
D. A. Battista
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
Greek
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato, The Republic
The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefelle
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
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
Mother Teresa
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