Poverty Quotes - Page 17

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.