Poverty Quotes - page 2

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. (Mark Twain)
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. View quote
Barack Obama
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. View quote
Doris Day
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. View quote
Aristotle
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich man to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. View quote
Sean O`Casey
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. View quote
Lawrence Wright
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. View quote
Fidel Castro
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. View quote
Maimonides
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. (Kim Campbell)
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it. View quote
Paul Krugman
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, farseeing be. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. View quote
Herbert Simon
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. View quote
Samuel Johnson
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. View quote
Samuel Johnson
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. (Jane Goodall)
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. View quote
Juvenal
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
📖 Poverty Proverbs