Poverty Quotes

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx
Greek - painless poverty is better than embittered wealth....
Japanese prove - in wealth many friends in poverty, not even...
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
Lydia sigourney - in early childhood you may lay the foundation of...
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
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
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
Jewish Prove
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace, Odes
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
Author Unknown
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
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
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes
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
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato, The Republic
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.
D. A. Battista
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
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
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
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
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
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
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
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
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
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
G. K. Chesterton
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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 chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefelle
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
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson