Poorness Quotes

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray's Elegy : "The short and simple annals of the poor." That's my life, and that's all you or anyone can make out of it.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Love your life, poor as it is.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

It is a sin to be poor.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil.

What we're saying is that if you are poor, you can die.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks