poverty Quotes

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.