Achievement Quote by Ayn Rand

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck”

— Celso Cukierkorn

Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor…

— Saint Francis de Sales

To have nothing is not poverty

— Latin Proverb

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

— Jane Jacobs

“Poverty is so unfair but, if one prays & create and educate oneself to have assets poverty no longer is the ruler of ones…

— Mrs.Tabatha D. Cain, Malik

“The spirit of poverty always causes a person to do two things: blame their circumstance for their lack, and feel entitled.”

— Kynan Bridges

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Poverty is death in another form.

— Latin Proverb

“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not…

— Seneca

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

— Adam Smith

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer