Bunch Quote by Jon Krakauer

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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

— Jimmy Dean

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 grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine…

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so…

— Jimmy Barnes

...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 was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I…

— Derrick Rose

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

— Benjamin Carson

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

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