Choices Quote by Benjamin Carson

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there…

— Andrew Carnegie

Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is…

— Moon Jae-in

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do…

— Narendra Modi

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

— Jimmy Dean

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose,…

— Harry Belafonte

It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because…

— Viola Davis

I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine…

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so…

— Jimmy Barnes

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

— Benjamin Carson

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to…

— Jon Krakauer

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money.…

— Faith Sullivan