Poverty Quotes

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.