Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person’s estate, but in their souls.
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
One of the central issues in the world population crisis is poverty.
And poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.