Attitude Quote by Paul Valery

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

— Jim Rohn

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

— Confucius

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It…

— Morarji Desai

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public…

— Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so…

— Charles Handy

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell

The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with…

— Duane Elgin

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical…

— Alain de Botton

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their…

— Thomas Friedman

...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with…

— Pope Francis

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

— Johann Kaspar Lavater