Manny Pacquiao Quotes

Poverty demoralizes.

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

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I've lived in poverty.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

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

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

I've been poor most of my life.