Character Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them.…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

If you really want to know the real character of a poor man just have to wait for him to be rich.

— Anonymous

My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He…

— Rodney Crowell

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than…

— Anne Bradstreet

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

— Seneca the Younger

Poor is the man who desires a lot

— Leonardo da Vinci

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

— Marcus Minucius Felix

“Being without one's family is the worst poverty”

— Kara Dalkey

When a family is poor, everyone is poor, and there is huge solidarity. People will take a bullet for you. But when one makes…

— Emmanuel Adebayor

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

— Publilius Syrus

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

— Abraham Lincoln