Mom Quote by Les Cochran

“We are not poor. We just don't have any money!”

— Maria Augusta Trapp

“People are not poor because they’ve made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they’re poor.”

— Zadie Smith

“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.”

— Stan Grant

“Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing that they have is money.”

— Paul Coelho

“I hate being poor.”

— J.K. Rowling

“We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“If you think you are poor, then you are more than that.”

— Alin Sav

“The poor aren't those who have LITTLE,but those who want much”

— Pepe Mujica

“But, as my sister says, ‘there must always be poor people so that now that I’m rich I can shit on them.”

— Marcel Proust

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

— Deval Patrick

“Lack of money is no poverty.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita