Top 42 Quotes About Poverty And Happiness
#1. Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
Pico Iyer
#2. Peace is not the absence of poverty
But the presence of love for beauty
Debasish Mridha
#3. [If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#4. Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty to about $50,000 a year in income.
John Medina
#5. The hour when you say, What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
Aristotle.
#9. The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
Henry B. Eyring
#10. It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
#11. It's not the poverty of material abundance but the poverty of love makes life miserable.
Debasish Mridha
#12. It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
Bertrand Russell
#15. Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.
Jon Krakauer
#16. I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
Criss Jami
#17. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace
#18. The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
Christopher Marlowe
#20. What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.
John Gay
#21. Charlie and Daniel think money and happiness are not related. They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to a body. To a mind.
Nicola Yoon
#22. Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.
Billy Graham
#23. They could have lived on happiness alone, in their glamourous poverty, in their apartment.
Lauren Groff
#24. 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
#25. if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.
Pearl S. Buck
#26. To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
#27. Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
Leo Rosten
#28. Writer Leo Rosten famously quipped: 'Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.' The
Ashwin Sanghi
#30. A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.
Neel Burton
#31. Passion is the fuel that keeps your venture going,even when income is no where to be found.
Auliq Ice
#32. I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
Thomas Browne
#33. 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
#34. Whereas in the old days one acquired eternal happiness by the grace of God, now too often the eternal happiness seems to have become like an aged and infirm pensioner who sustains his life in the house of the rich on the wretched crust of poverty.
Soren Kierkegaard
#35. An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
Sonia Sotomayor
#36. What was life like ?
deprivation and abundance, side by side like a miracle. surrender to them both .
Poverty and sunshine, poverty and jewels in the sky .
Drought and the gushing Nile
Disease and clean hearts, stories from neighbours and relationships .
Leila Aboulela
#37. I saw the poverty; I say the prosperity. Both have fundamental problems.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Money Can't Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty
Sharon Law Tucker
#39. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
#40. There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
Dalai Lama
#41. Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
Antisthenes
#42. In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
Barbara Kingsolver
