Poverty Quotes, Sayings about being poor

I moaned because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.

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Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
– Anthony Horowitz

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Poor : When you have too much month at the end of your money.

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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
– Albert Einstein

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Poverty and adversity have produced many of the most successful people in the world.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
– Victor Hugo

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African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations-they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized.
– Duop Chak Wuol

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The man who sleeps on the floor can’t fall out of bed.

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To be poor is not a problem but to remain poor is.

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Poverty builds up the strong and breaks down the weak. Many children of the poor have achieved great success in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head; dignity won’t allow him to bow it down.

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Poverty has destroyed many idling people. Poverty has produced many outstanding achievers.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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The things you take for granted. Someone else is praying for.

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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
– Seneca

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

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By sharing you don’t become poor… You become rich. For the more you share, the more shall you receive.
– RVM

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I give to the poor, not because I have plenty but because I know how it feels to have nothing.

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The only way to get your way out of poverty is hard work.

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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Poor man walks miles to earn the food & rich man walks miles to digest the food.

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Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
– Publilius Syrus

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You will never become rich, until you hate poverty.
– Mike Murdock

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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
– William Faulkner

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From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me.
– Manmohan Singh

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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
– Confucius

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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
– Benjamin Franklin

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The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
– Rhonda Byrne

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
– Aristotle

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Poor is the man who is not content with what he has.
– Rita Gonzalez

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When poverty comes in the door love goes out the window.

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How to stay poor:
Start tomorrow.
Fail once, quit forever.
Blame your circumstances.
Wait for perfect conditions.
Stay busy. Accomplish nothing.
Talk more. Do less.
– Alex Hormozi

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Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
– Khushwant Singh

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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
– Oliver Goldsmith

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I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
– Petrus Borel

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The poor in pocket are rich in spirit.

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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
– Plutarch

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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world out of six billion people, more than three billion. Do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
– Muhammad Yunus

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For the world to be a better place for all. Country leaders need to focus on building a platform for the poor to escape poverty.
– Sipho P Nkosi

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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
– George Orwell

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
– Edward Gibbon quotes

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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.

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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

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It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.
– Idowu Koyenikan

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… 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

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If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.
– Arvind Kejriwal

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Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

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As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
– Nelson Mandela

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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