Adversity Quote by Dallin H. Oaks

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

— Plutarch

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them…

— Pope Francis

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and…

— Helene D. Gayle

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is…

— Bill Gates

Poverty makes you work really hard.

— Maye Musk

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible…

— Lillian B. Rubin

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for…

— Saint John Chrysostom

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.

— Brian Tracy

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

— Nancy Mitford