Top Poverty Quotes
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.
Rodrigo Rato
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa 
80% of people like this quote
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
76% of people like this quote
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna
76% of people like this quote
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger
75% of people like this quote
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.
Rodrigo Rato
73% of people like this quote
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
68% of people like this quote
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
63% of people like this quote
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
Marian Wright Edelman
63% of people like this quote
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
63% of people like this quote
Popular Poverty Authors
Henry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawMark TwainMohandas GandhiSamuel JohnsonVictor HugoLucius Annaeus Seneca PlatoH. L. Mencken AristotleGilbert K. ChestertonOrison Swett Marden HoraceMichel de MontaigneJohn F. Kennedy
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