2,719 Quotes About Poverty

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Having the least usually forces us to make the most of what we have.

The hatred of money is almost always a defense mechanism.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

We couldn’t afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.

Grace is released more abundantly as you work.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.