It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
Juvenal
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
Juvenal
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
Samuel Johnson
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
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
Samuel Johnson
One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people.
Isaak Iselin
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.
Heinrich Heine
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
William Hazlitt
Nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty.
Oliver Goldsmith
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
Honore de Balzac
It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin