Ability Quote by Juvenal

They do not easily rise in the world whose talents are depressed by poverty.

— Vikrant Parsai

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

— Juvenal

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

— Plato

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

— Daniel Deleon

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

— Orison Swett Marden

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I have seen poverty first hand. My parents were not well-off. They were in Ban'gladesh and I - just a child then - was…

— Roopa Ganguly

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

— Pope Francis