Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

I succumbed to hedonism.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

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.

My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.

But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

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

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.