Russell H. Conwell Quotes

The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You're lookin' at it

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty