Poverty Quotes - Page 5

• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  Doris Day

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

  Eric Hoffer

  Struggle, Shelter, Desperate

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Poor

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• That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

  Henry George

  Men, Civilization, Want

  Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

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• For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Firsts, Conquer, First Time

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.377, Best Books on

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• Small leisure have the poor for grief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Grief, Leisure, Poor

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1875). “Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl”, p.44

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• The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Mind, Rags

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

  Juvenal

  Laughter, Mind, Mankind

  Juvenal (1806). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes”, p.84

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• Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Age, Heirs, Poor

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1892). “Poems”

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• The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
  [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

  Horace

  Men, Wish, Purses

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• The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Anxiety, Other Half, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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• Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
  [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

  Plautus

  Art, Thorough

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• It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

  Ouida

  Hitting, Kind, Poor

  Ouida (1873). “Pascarèl: Only a Story”, p.78

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• We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Extravagance, Philosopher

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.293

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• Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

  George MacDonald

  Block, Men, Doors

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• The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Rich, Knows, Hard

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• Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

  Charles Lamb

  Rags, Dresses, Suits

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.127

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• Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Men, Land

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• Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
  [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
  Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

  Ovid

  Departed, No Friends, Way

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• Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Desire, Worship

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Alfred Hagart's household”, p.166

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• If we from wealth to poverty descend,
  Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

  John Dryden

  Giving, Want, Wealth

  John Dryden (1822). “Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer”, p.259

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• Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
  Because its virtues are not understood;
  Yet many things, impossible to thought,
  Have been by need to full perfection brought.
  The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
  Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
  Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;
  And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

  John Dryden

  Taken, Giving, Perfection

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Community, Political

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• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Truth, Honesty, Inspiration

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• There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Unemployment, Levels

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