33 Best Poverty Quotes

It's so dreadful to be poor!

It's so dreadful to be poor!

Bethlehem's stable was the first tabernacle - the manger teaches us to reverence Christ in the poor. – Padre Pio

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. - Mother Teresa

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. - Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. - Mother Teresa

Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. - Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. - Mother Teresa

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. - Mother Teresa

When you don't have anything, then you have everything. - Mother Teresa

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. - Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. - Mother Teresa

When I was your age, I didn’t have shoes until I was 13. – Rob Hilliard

Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat. Otherwise, we'd get along.

Just a little snack, Abu. We'll share. – Aladdin

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all.

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

Do not be afraid of your poverty, do not be afraid of your riches. – The Elder Zosima

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself.

The mast was nearly as long as the one room of the shack. – Narrator

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety. – Katniss Everdeen

We got no food, we got no jobs... our pets' heads are falling off! – Lloyd Christmas

Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a rich man and I've been a poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time. – Jordan Belfort

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. – Scarlett O'Hara

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake. – Bill Gates

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It's harmful. – Bill Gates

I absolutely believe that poverty is not a choice. It is something that we can fix. – Jacinda Ardern

We have to fight poverty, not the poor. – Narendra Modi