Poverty Quotes · Page 20

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

— Kin Hubbard

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

— Josh Billings

“Life had given her nothing but money, a poor gift,”

— Kate O'Brien

I've always found poverty a source of strength.

— Stephen Frears

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

— Anonymous

It is better to be poor than to live alone.

— Vikrant Parsai

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

— Lactantius

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

— Madonna

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

— Eamon Dunphy

Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.

— Emile Coue

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

— May Sarton

“One must run his life and set himself apart to do that which he was born to do.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

— Kevin de Leon

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

— Juvenal

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face…

— Dorothea Lange

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

— Muhammad Yunus

God sends us the poor to try us… And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God…

— William Penn

“The whole world will stand still to give you a way to the top if you practice the rule of ten thousand…

— Sunday Adelaja

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

— Bill Cosby

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall…

— Robert Mugabe

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“I hadn't realized what a transformation had taken place while I had been in Uganda, the spiritual richness I had experienced in…

— Katie J. Davis

“There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people — people who have fallen into…

— Anonymous

“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45…

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was…

— Evita Peron

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive…

— Margaret Geller

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of…

— Van Jones

“Poverty is a mindset: It creates that sense of scarcity. You then become accustomed to it such that your life is hinged…

— Oscar Bimpong

God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs ! Believers who…

— Glen Rambharack

“A thread from everyone, and the naked will have a shirt." There is no beggar but has his thread of cotton, and…

— Lev Shestov

Poverty is the root of all evil.

— Sheikh Hasina

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.

— Mother Teresa

People who give will never be poor.

— Anne Frank

“Poverty consists in feeling poor.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

— John Green

I'd Rather Be Poor And Happy Then Rich And Alone.

— Varicoloured

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

— John Webster

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

— T. Harv Eker