Poverty Quotes

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

And makes me poor indeed.

Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know?

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

No baggage - there was the secret of existence.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

people who eat 3 meals a day throughout lifehave never reallytastedFood...

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Hunger is insolent and will be fed.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.