--- title: "9 Life Poverty Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Life Poverty quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Life Poverty sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/jarod-kintz-2_enjoy-life_enjoy-a-life-of-poverty-become-a-poet-18_181301.jpg" --- > [“Enjoy a life of poverty. Become a poet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/enjoy-a-life-of-poverty-become-a-poet/) [Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/jarod-kintz-2_enjoy-life_enjoy-a-life-of-poverty-become-a-poet-18_181301.jpg) > [A life of poverty is not a road to wellness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carole-hanrahan/a-life-of-poverty-is-not-a-road-to-wellness/) [Carole Hanrahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carole-hanrahan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/082/carole-hanrahan-38608_health_a-life-of-poverty-is-not-a-road-to-welln_1576109.jpg) > [Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-harrington/being-born-into-poverty-does-not-mean-you-are-condemned-to-spend-the/) [Kevin Harrington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-harrington/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/785/kevin-harrington-36338_born_being-born-into-poverty-does-not-mean-yo_2997669.png) > [In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hedda-hopper/in-this-life-you-can-take-poverty-you-can-take-failure-you-can-take/) [Hedda Hopper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hedda-hopper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65f/hedda-hopper-22352_big-things_in-this-life-you-can-take-poverty-you-ca_581457.jpg) > [Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/our-life-of-poverty-is-as-necessary-as-the-work-itself-only-in-heaven/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ae/mother-teresa-196_heaven_our-life-of-poverty-is-as-necessary-as-t_237753.jpg) > [Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-carson/having-grown-up-in-dire-poor-the-thing-that-i-hated-the-most-in-life/) [Benjamin Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-carson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/benjamin-carson-955_hated_having-grown-up-in-dire-poor-the-thing-t_2491059.png) > [Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tupac-shakur/gotta-start-teaching-the-children-that-they-can-be-just-what-they/) [Tupac Shakur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tupac-shakur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/tupac-shakur-516_children_gotta-start-teaching-the-children-that-t_1637562.jpg) > [I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ritchie-torres/i-spent-almost-all-my-life-in-poverty-raised-by-a-single-mother-who/) [Ritchie Torres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ritchie-torres/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/791/ritchie-torres-6334_children_i-spent-almost-all-my-life-in-poverty-ra_232710.jpg) > [No-one is destined to live a life of poverty, because each of us has the ability to change everything in this life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhonda-byrne/no-one-is-destined-to-live-a-life-of-poverty-because-each-of-us-has/) [Rhonda Byrne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhonda-byrne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/169/rhonda-byrne-585_ability_no-one-is-destined-to-live-a-life-of-pov_719121.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-poverty/#itemlist", "name": "Life Poverty Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Enjoy a life of poverty. 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