Poverty Sayings & Quotes
These poverty sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. - Samuel Johnson
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. - Raoul Vaneigem
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. - James Baldwin
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. - Plato
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness. - Henry David Thoreau
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long, lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance - a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. - William Barclay
It's a very remarkable circumstance, sir,' said Sam, 'that poverty and oysters always seem to go together. - Charles Dickens
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. - Mother Teresa
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man, the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse, the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. - Washington Irving
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. - George Bernard Shaw
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. - John W. Gardner