Poverty Quotes

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

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.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.