Compensation Quote by Antoine Rivarol

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

— Henry George

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires…

— Geraldine Brooks

“It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if…

— Annie Dillard

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

— Glenn Frey

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from…

— Orison Swett Marden

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

— Julia Cameron

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

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

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

A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of…

— Thomas Dreier

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients…

— Anonymous