Awful Quote by Faith Sullivan

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

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

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

— Benjamin Carson

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

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more…

— Keith Ferrazzi

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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 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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

— Jimmy Dean

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

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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