Top 100 Poverty Wealth Quotes
#1. Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither
/ One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.
Kassia
#2. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
William Steig
#3. Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#5. Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
Mason Cooley
#6. The oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)
Mev Puleo
#7. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#8. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.
Liu Cixin
#9. Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.
Saji Ijiyemi
#10. Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.
John H. Groberg
#11. Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.
Li Keqiang
#12. God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all - no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
Ronald J. Sider
#13. Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
Alexander Pushkin
#14. The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.
Clint Black
#16. God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
Shane Claiborne
#17. Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
Walter Savage Landor
#18. The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
Michel De Montaigne
#19. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
#20. There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the heavens themselves and the star-filled night are nature's riches.
Albert Camus
#21. Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
Martin Hopkins
#22. Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#23. My Poverty doesn't help anyone, but my wealth helps a lot of people.
Dolf De Roos
#24. Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
Radhanath Swami
#25. The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money ... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
#26. The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.
Henry Clay
#28. The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#29. We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse!
Adriano Bulla
#30. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#31. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
Lloyd Banks
#32. there is no such thing as poverty; only the absence of wealth (Jacobs, 1969; and see Piachaud, 2002
Hartley Dean
#33. Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#34. If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
William Godwin
#36. I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.
Roman Payne
#37. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!
Susan B. Anthony
#38. It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.
Faina Ranevskaya
#39. Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
Leo Rosten
#40. This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
Charles Dickens
#41. It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.
Michael Bassey
#42. I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
Ben Hecht
#43. Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.
Patricia Hampl
#44. Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Stuart Wilde
#45. For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#46. Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
Marcus Aurelius
#47. Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they do. The truly miserable, however, don't know how poor they are, and I want nothing from them.
Robin Sacredfire
#50. The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.
Neel Burton
#52. If you recieved a nickel for every act of your kindness and had to pay a nickel for every act of your negativity and cruelty, would you be a man of wealth? or poverty?
Anonymous
#53. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.2
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#54. People who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
John Hancock
#55. You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.
Joseph Prince
#56. A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!
Charles Lamb
#57. I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. Believe in poverty and you will be poor.
Believe in wealth and you will be rich.
Believe in love and you will have love.
Believe in health and you will be healthy.
Napoleon Hill
#59. I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.
Tom Hodgkinson
#60. Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.
Joseph Addison
#61. Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#62. Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.
Jose Rizal
#63. All of society's problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.
Heather Marsh
#64. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
Eduardo Galeano
#65. Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.
Peter Blair Henry
#66. Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
#67. Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.
Robert Kiyosaki
#68. Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Leo Tolstoy
#69. Although I had never known anything but poverty, I knew that no amount of wealth could diminish my shame." From: Caspian Diary
J.M. Sandler
#70. A person born blind cannot frame the smallest conception of darkness, because he has none of light. The savage knows nothing of poverty, because he does not know wealth and the ignorant has no conception of his ignorance, because he has none of knowledge.
Immanuel Kant
#71. If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.
John Lyly
#72. 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
#73. Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.
Frederick Marryat
#74. -To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.
Muhammad Iqbal
#75. Great is Youth
equally great is Old Age
great are Day and Night.
Great is Wealth
great is Poverty
great is Expression-great is Silence.
Walt Whitman
#77. Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey
Kharis Macey
#78. The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.
Nassau William Senior
#79. It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.
Mark Batterson
#80. ...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.
Max Weber
#81. Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.
Kenneth Patchen
#82. God. For they had not the insight to see that I might put the lessons which they forced me to learn to any other purpose than the satisfaction of man's insatiable desire for the poverty he calls wealth and the infamy he knows as fame.
Augustine Of Hippo
#83. I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.
Gary Shteyngart
#84. This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
Tavis Smiley
#85. A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with.
And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him.
It is NOT where you come FROM that matters,
But where you are GOING.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#86. Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
Alain De Botton
#87. Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
Aesop
#88. Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.
Joan Robinson
#89. The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!
Alice Walker
#90. The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#91. If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Proverb
#92. Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.
George Saunders
#94. No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
Andrew Young
#95. ...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth.
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Frank Huyler
#96. Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#97. Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.
Bernie Sanders
#98. Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
M. J. Hyland
#99. In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.
Saint John Chrysostom
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