Able Quote by Derrick Rose

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just…

— Benjamin Carson

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

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

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

— Pam Grier

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after…

— Sue Sanders

I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to…

— Bartrand Hubbard

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

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

I came from poverty and a tough household where we didn't have enough money to really eat, to where I am now. I know…

— LaMarcus Aldridge

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to…

— Narendra Modi

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

— Taylor Caldwell

I'm from poverty, I'm never satisfied with anything I do.

— Boosie