Poverty Quote by Jack Hayford

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

— St. Jerome

“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor, however great…

— Seneca

“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by chance he…

— Eduardo Galeano

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will…

— George Bernard Shaw

“He who will not work shall not eat.' Yet, so strong is the propensity to be thought 'gentlemen;' so general is this desire amongst…

— William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.”

— André Gide

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme…

— Jean de La Bruyère

“Only a starving man asks bread from a begger”

— George R.R. Martin

“How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy…

— Ernest Hemingway

“For the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indiferent place.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke