Cycles Quote by Keith Brantly

“The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven’t the time or energy to keep score.”

— Studs Terkel

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

— Annie Lennox

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

— Daniel Deleon

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

— Marcy Kaptur

I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys…

— Mekhi Phifer

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

— Antonio Porchia

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

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 read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

— Walter Inglis Anderson