Poverty Quotes

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means 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 only by fools.

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

To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.