Quotes About Poverty

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.