Quotes About Poverty

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

People are dying of starvation and famine.And you have a MASSERATTI!

In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

The poorest man you can marry is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks character.