Quotes about Poverty
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
— Zig Ziglar
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
— Samuel Johnson
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa of Avila
If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
— Tony Robbins
So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.
— Ellen White
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
— George Bernard Shaw
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
— Mark Twain
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
— Martin Luther
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
— Mae West
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
— Billy Sunday