Poverty Quotes

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
Plato, the republic - wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and...
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
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
G. K. Chesterton
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
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
Jewish Prove
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
Dennis kucinich, 2004 speech to democratic national convention - poverty is a weapon of mass destruction....
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
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
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
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace, Odes
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx
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
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Kahlil Gibran
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
The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefelle