Poverty Quotes

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
Mother Teresa
Plutarch - learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth,...
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
Proverbs 30. 8 Bible
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
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
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Kin hubbard - it is pretty hard to tell what does bring...
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
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F. Gilde
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.
David Pratt
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Kahlil Gibran
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
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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