Poverty Quotes

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

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

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 most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

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

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

Author Unknown

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.

Japanese Prove

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

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

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

Greek

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

D. A. Battista

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

George F. Gilde

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Proverbs 30. 8 Bible

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

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

Bill Cosby

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

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