Aspirations Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image “The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aspirations Dreams Poor Poor Poverty Poverty Poverty Aspirations Real Real Tragedy Rich Tragedy Tragedy Poor
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I'm not walking around saying I am the best in the world but I'll always have aspirations to get there. — Aaron Ramsdale Copy Share Image
For 20 years, I've been running an institute in Chennai where serious dancers from Kerala come with aspirations of becoming professional dancers. — Shobana Copy Share Image
“All beings begin their lives with hope and aspirations. Among these aspirations is the desire that there will be a straight path to those… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that I fulfill the aspirations of the Gabonese people: to have access to a better life, job opportunities, and… — Ali Bongo Ondimba Copy Share Image
“The vision of life is not a "discovery"; it's a "work" and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
When I joined films, I was clueless about the industry and had no aspirations to be an actor. — Arvind Swami Copy Share Image
Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
