Poverty mindset Quotes

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future.

One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

The covetous man is always poor.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.