George Foreman Quotes

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I was born on the west side of Chicago, and there was quite a bit of poverty. My family and I didn't have exactly the best or the most optimal financial situation in my youth, but we turned out well. My mom always made sure that we got a proper education and that we dedicated ourselves to our work.

I grew up poor.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

I know what poverty is.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

No sir, tho’ I was born and bred in England, I can dare to be poor, which is the only thing now—a—days men are asham’d of.

Your poverty is my shame.

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

There were days when my dad and grandpa had to work and I would call a cab to get to school. I felt a little embarrassed and would get out a block before school. There were kids getting dropped off in a Mercedes or Lexus. I didn't want them to see me.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.