Beautiful Poverty Quotes

#1. A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Gordon Parks

#3. It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

Shane Claiborne

#4. Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The

Michael Crichton

#5. A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted.

Mother Teresa

#6. Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

Russell Kirk

#7. All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

Gene Wolfe

#8. The Brain Size of People who see Big Dreams, is same as of Yours.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#9. That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [ ... ] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful.

Sean Wilsey

#10. Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind
is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is
no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward
poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. I'm. Not. A. Victim!" I growled low and clearly pronounced each word. "No? Then what are you?" he asked, angered by my words. "I'm a survivor.

Amelia Hutchins

#12. Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.

Honore De Balzac

#13. What alchemy there was in human beings.

Agatha Christie

#14. Alive enough to have strength to die

Thomas Hardy

#15. Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life's garland

Munia Khan

#16. I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

Patrick Ness

#17. How about having a properly equipped crash cart?

Melissa Rivers

#18. By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

Huineng

#19. Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Louisa May Alcott

#20. As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

James Allen

#21. Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#22. There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

Michael Moore

#23. It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. My given name is James."
"James Moriarty."
...
"Really? Sherlock wishes to discuss odd names with me?"
"And a point to Miss Moriarty."
...
"You're an idiot. Truly.

Heather W. Petty

#25. The number one skill in life is not giving up.

Bryant McGill

#26. She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.

John Varley

#27. What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Walt Whitman

#28. Folk dress in all manner of finery and wonderful hats to go and watch the races, but only if it's horses doing the barreling that day. This, at least, is understandable, for horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse's tragedy that they can never properly wear one.

Catherynne M Valente

#29. I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.

Robert Anton Wilson

#30. I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.

Taryn Manning