Amusing Quote by Elsa Maxwell

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of…

— Anonymous

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make it." There…

— Alan Sparhawk

...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children…

— Antonio Guterres

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

“Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left…

— Ellen J. Barrier

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to…

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

— William Hazlitt

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Fay Weldon

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

— Mary Mapes Dodge