dignity in poverty Quotes

‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.