Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. – Oliver Goldsmith
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. – Benjamin Franklin
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. – Norman Vincent Peale
Poverty is the worst form of violence. – Mahatma Gandhi
Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts. – Sadhguru
Poor is the man who is not content with what he has. – Rita Gonzalez
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. – Helder Camara
Poverty is not a circumstance, it’s an attitude. – Rita Gonzalez
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. – Oscar Wilde
Pity the sorrows of a poor man, whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door.
… I’m much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won’t forgive me for it. – Princess Diana
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. – Nelson Mandela
Learn to see being poor as a motivation not as a wall of big stones standing between you and your destiny.
I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth. – Petrus Borel
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don’t even know there is a ladder. – Robert H. Schuller
Some people are poor not because they have nothing, but because they always want more.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. – George Orwell
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. – Martin Luther King Jr.
It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it. – Idowu Koyenikan
There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. – George Farquhar
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