19 quotes about poverty and being poor

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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

– Bob Hope

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

– Emily Dickinson

He that rises late must trot all day.

– Benjamin Franklin

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

– Thomas Jefferson

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I’m being funny, but I’m reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we’re going down the tube.

– Joan Rivers

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

– Samuel Butler

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

– Pierre Corneille

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

– Jackie Kennedy

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

– Albert Einstein

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

– Pablo Picasso

You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

– John Krasinski

Don’t forget to love yourself.

– Soren Kierkegaard

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

– Abraham Lincoln

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.

– Confucius

I am I plus my circumstances.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

– Benjamin Franklin

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

– Carl Jung

If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

– William J. Clinton

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison – if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.

– Milton Berle

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

– Will Smith

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

– Bill Vaughan

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.

– Franklin P. Jones