Book Quote by JTC

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

— Ihara Saikaku

He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty

— Bible

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him,…

— Thomas Carlyle

“What can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down? Poverty cannot dishearten him,…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl

— Joanna Baillie

“You cannot defeat a strong man who believes in himself. He cannot be pushed down, cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down.…

— Orison Swett Marden

He who hesitates is poor.

— Mel Brooks

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

— André Gide

“The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn't know how to operate and release the riches of his mind, can at…

— Joseph Murphy

“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