Poverty Quotes

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Milton Berle

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

Jay-Z

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

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

Hans Hofmann

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Paul Farmer

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Criss Jami

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

Simone de Beauvoir

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Colin Thompson

In this base world, full of poverty and misery, for the first time I thought a ray of sunshine had shone on my life. But alas, it was not a sunbeam, rather it was only a transient beam, a shooting star, which appeared to me in the likeness of a woman or an angel.

Sadegh Hedayat

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Jim Carrey

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world's most vulnerable, the world's exiled, the world's most wounded. Our concern should be what the poor and prostituted think of us, what the God of the universe thinks of us, not what those around us think of us.

Sarah Lance

Sleeping late in the morning is the origin of poverty and short life.

Namboku Mizuno

Remember the poor - it costs nothing

Mark Twain

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

William Shakespeare

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

Marian Wright Edleman, Black Ame

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

Muhammad Yunus

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

Jean Vanier

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

William Shakespeare