Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation. — Napoleon Hill
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. — John Ruskin
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us… — Raoul Vaneigem
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate… — Horatio Alger
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed… — Unknown Author
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time — Pope Francis
One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good,… — Confucius
The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature of… — Thomas Raymond Kelly
The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into… — Moshe Katsav
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and… — Elijah Cummings
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. — Og Mandino
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty. — Francis of Assisi
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. — Aesop
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty… — Russell Kirk
Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational… — Mike Mentzer
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty — Ela Bhatt
The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a… — Dennis Prager
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or… — Ann Radcliffe
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng… — Ayn Rand
Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head. — John Hope Bryant
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere… — Bernadette Devlin
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are… — George Eliot
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those… — Saint John Chrysostom
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild,… — Saint John Chrysostom
Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who… — Saint John Chrysostom

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