Complaints Quote by William Cowper

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

— Daniel Deleon

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Laziness demands misery.”

— Bryant McGill

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is…

— Plutarch

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

— Plutarch

“The spirit of poverty always causes a person to do two things: blame their circumstance for their lack, and feel entitled.”

— Kynan Bridges

“Poverty can make people self-centered”

— Ines Thorn

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

— Jim Rohn

“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made…

— Georges Simenon

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for…

— Rainer Maria Rilke