Empowerment Quote by Keith Ferrazzi

Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is…

— Moon Jae-in

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected…

— Viola Davis

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

— Pam Grier

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money.…

— Faith Sullivan

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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

— Jimmy Dean

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern.…

— Wayne Dyer