Poverty Quotes

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.

Mother Teresa

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

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

George F. Gilde

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Proverbs 30. 8 Bible

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

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

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

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

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

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