I moaned because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
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
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
– Anthony Horowitz
Rain is a blessing to those who have a roof, but is a curse to those who don’t.
The man who sleeps on the floor can’t fall out of bed.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
– Princess Diana
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Poor : When you have too much month at the end of your money.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
– Aristotle
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
– Albert Einstein
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Poverty and adversity have produced many of the most successful people in the world.
– Dr T.P.Chia
When poverty comes in the door love goes out the window.
The things you take for granted. Someone else is praying for.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
– Victor Hugo
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
Poor man walks miles to earn the food & rich man walks miles to digest the food.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
– Seneca
Poverty is not a hindrance to success.
Sometimes, I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice in the world when he could be doing something about it, but I’m afraid he might ask me the same question.
Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head; dignity won’t allow him to bow it down.
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
– Karl Marx
To be poor is not a problem but to remain poor is.
By sharing you don’t become poor… You become rich. For the more you share, the more shall you receive.
– RVM
Poverty has destroyed many idling people. Poverty has produced many outstanding achievers.
– Dr T.P.Chia
You will never become rich, until you hate poverty.
– Mike Murdock
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
– Khushwant Singh
I give to the poor, not because I have plenty but because I know how it feels to have nothing.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot
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
Education is the antidote to poverty.
– Arvind Kejriwal
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
– Plutarch
Pity the sorrows of a poor man, whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
– Publilius Syrus
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
– Oliver Goldsmith
The poor in pocket are rich in spirit.
The only way to get your way out of poverty is hard work.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
– William Faulkner
If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.
– Arvind Kejriwal
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
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
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
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
– Benjamin Franklin
Poverty is not a circumstance, it’s an attitude.
– Rita Gonzalez
If poverty ain’t no crime then stealing sure ain’t one.
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
– Oscar Wilde
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.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
– Norman Vincent Peale
It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.
– Idowu Koyenikan
Learn to see being poor as a motivation not as a wall of big stones standing between you and your destiny.
Some people are poor not because they have nothing, but because they always want more.
Debt is the worst poverty.
– Thomas Fuller
The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.
– Charles A. Beard
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
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
– Mahatma Gandhi
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
– Jeffrey D. Sachs
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
– Edward Gibbon quotes
A poor person is one who doesn’t buy anything until he sees someone else buying it first.
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
– Mother Teresa
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
– Nelson Mandela
Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.
– Bono
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
– Carlos Slim
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
– George Orwell
… 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
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
– Kahlil Gibran
There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
– George Farquhar
We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.
– Ronald Reagan
Poor people share with the heart.
Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.
– Paul Collier
I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.
– Benjamin Harrison
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That’s where it will be.
– Muhammad Yunus
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
– J. K. Rowling
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
– Jane Austen
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
– George R. Gissing
Poor is the man who is not content with what he has.
– Rita Gonzalez
Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck.
– Celso Cukierkorn
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
– Paul Farmer
When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
– Petrus Borel
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.
– Nelson Mandela
I believe as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
– Robert F. Kennedy
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
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
Not all developing countries are the same.
– Paul Collier
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poverty is nothing to be laughed at but something to be felt.
Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate.
– Clarence Darrow
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
– Charlotte Bronte
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
People are starving in the world, not because we don’t have enough food, but because we’re not organized. And computers are part of that.
– Larry Page
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
– Honore de Balzac
Poverty begins when you choose to remain.
Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.
– Victor J. Banis
In order to make poverty history, we must make affluence history.
– Bryan Carey
People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves.
– Ben Elton
The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.
– Carlos Slim
Sometimes I feel I’m just doing a poor impression of a person. Maybe I feel this way because I have no money.
– Jarod Kintz