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Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.-Antiphanes

 

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.-Anatole France

 

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 often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.-Benjamin Franklin

 

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.-Josh Billings

 

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.-Aristotle

 

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.-George Bernard Shaw

 

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.-Apuleius

 

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.-Philip James Bailey

 

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.-Bible

 

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.-Juvenal

 

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.-Kin Hubbard

 

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.-Plato

 

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.-Bible

 

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.-Oliver Goldsmith

 

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.-Thomas Gray

 

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.-Bible

 

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.-Robert Browning

 

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.-George Canning

 

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.-William Bliss Carman

 

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.-Bible

 

Patiently bear the burden of poverty.-Dionysius Cato

 

The beggarly last doit.-William Cowper

 

And plenty makes us poor.-John Dryden

 

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.-Bible

 

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.-Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

 

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.-John Dryden

 

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.-Bible

 

Living from hand to mouth.-Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

 

The greatest man in history was the poorest.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.-Oliver Goldsmith

 

One must be poor to know the luxury of living.-Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

 

Poverty is no sinne.-George Herbert

 

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

 

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.-Melville D. Landon

 

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.-Henry David Thoreau

Poverty is the mother of health.-George Herbert

 

The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.-Ching-an

 

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.-Thomas Robert Malthus

 

When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have.-Patrick Duncan

 

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.-Eugene O'neill

 

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.-Henry George

 

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.-Theodore Parker

 

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.-Jules Michelet

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. - Hannah More

 

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. - Benjamin Franklin

 

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. - Samuel Johnson

 

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man, the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse, the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. - Washington Irving

 

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. - Raoul Vaneigem

 

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. - John W. Gardner

 

It's a very remarkable circumstance, sir,' said Sam, 'that poverty and oysters always seem to go together. - Charles Dickens

 

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. - Mother Teresa

 

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. - George Bernard Shaw

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.-Arthur C. Clarke

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.-Eli Cohen

 

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney

 

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.-Benjamin Disraeli

 

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.-Thomas Edison

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been.-George Elliott

 

The saddest words of tongue or pen are these four words - it might have been.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

It is not the impossibilities that fills us with deepest despair, but possibilities that we have failed to realize.-Robert Mallet

 

Other people's opinions do not determine your potential.-Joel Osteen

 

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.-Robert Schuller

 

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.-John Steinbeck

 

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.-Brian Tracy

 

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.-Brian Tracy

 

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.-Horace Walpole