Poverty Quotes
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
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 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
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.Kahlil Gibran
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
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
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.Mae West
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
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
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.Author Unknown
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 greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.Plato, The Republic
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.George Bernard Shaw
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.Henry Fielding
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
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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.Juvenal, Satires
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
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
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.Groucho Marx
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
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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.Mother Teresa
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.Horace, Odes
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.Kahlil Gibran
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
Give me neither poverty nor riches.Proverbs 30. 8 Bible
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
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.Benjamin Franklin
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
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
