Poverty Quotes

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

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

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

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.

Japanese Prove

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Proverbs 30. 8 Bible

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

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention

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

D. A. Battista

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

Author Unknown

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 hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt