Childhood Quote by Narendra Modi

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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

— Jimmy Dean

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose,…

— Harry Belafonte

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

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just…

— Benjamin Carson

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for…

— Anonymous

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there…

— Andrew Carnegie

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

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to…

— Jon Krakauer

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

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to…

— Narendra Modi

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire