Poverty Quotes - Page 7

• Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attitude, Soul, Impossible

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• Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Clouds

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Laughter, Humor

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• We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Rich, Can Do

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Giving Money, People, Libertarian

  P.J. O'Rourke (1991). “PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”

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• I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Work

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• There's no nobility in poverty.

  Jordan Belfort

  Nobility

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.97, Bantam

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• The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Important, Might

  Thomas Merton (1989). “Thomas Merton in Alaska: Prelude to the Asian Journal : the Alaskan Conferences, Journals, and Letters”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Wise, Peace

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• The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Character, Soul

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• Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

  Henry Fielding

  Riches, Reason, Poor

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• However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life And Love, Inspirational Life, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Winning, Class

  "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning". New York Times Magazine, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 2006.

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• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Courage, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Real, Educational

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

  Edward Kennedy

  Should, Ending Poverty

  "America Back on Track".

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• It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Healthy, Privilege

  "The Rambler".

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• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Design, Poor

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• Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, Giving, Civilized Nations

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Names, Giving

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Hunger For Love, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

  Frank McCourt

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Shoes

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Work, Lazy

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself”, p.244

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