Quotes about Poverty

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi I

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

We see how many tricks they try, how many pursuits they exhaust themselves with in order to secure the objects of their ambition or greed, while trying to avoid, on the other hand, poverty and humility.

Let those who have abundance remember that they are surrounded with thorns, and let them take great care not to be pricked by them; and let those who have little and are very much hemmed in know that God planned [their poverty] to keep them from evil and hurtful snares.

Our lust is furious and our greed limitless in pursuing wealth and honors, chasing after power, heaping up riches, and gathering all those vain things which seem to give us grandeur and glory. On the other hand, we greatly fear and hate poverty, obscurity, and humility, and so we avoid these realities in every way. Thus, we see that those who order their lives according to their own counsel have a restless disposition. We

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.