Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. – Benjamin Franklin
Pity the sorrows of a poor man, whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door.
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
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. – Oscar Wilde
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
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
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.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. – Nelson Mandela
Some people are poor not because they have nothing, but because they always want more.
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. – Jeffrey D. Sachs
Learn to see being poor as a motivation not as a wall of big stones standing between you and your destiny.
… 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
If poverty ain’t no crime then stealing sure ain’t one.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. – George Orwell
It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it. – Idowu Koyenikan
A poor person is one who doesn’t buy anything until he sees someone else buying it first.
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