Poverty Quotes
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.Kahlil Gibran
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.Kin Hubbard
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
True poverty does not come from God.Yiddish Prove
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
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.George F. Gilde
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
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.Horace, Odes
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.Antiphanes
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.Mother Teresa
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
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Greek
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
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.Kahlil Gibran
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
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.Lyndon B. Johnson
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.Groucho Marx
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
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
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
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
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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.Juvenal, Satires
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.Mother Teresa
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
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
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.Mae West
