When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.

When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble.

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

One of the most lucrative privileges of an empty handed is the easiness to embrace wholeheartedly!