Quotes About Poverty

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

What's a soup kitchen?

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it's impossible.

Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

Money is only important when you don't have any.