Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht

Affluence creates poverty.
Marshall McLuhan

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
James Allen

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
Justin Bieber

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Don Herold

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
Marco Rubio

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
Loretta Lynn

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
Joseph Stiglitz

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

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
Cat Stevens

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
John Berger

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
Jasmine Guy