William Hazlitt Quotes
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
William Hazlitt
Quotes to Explore
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
N. T. Wright
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
Saint Patrick
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
Rand Paul
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.
Malala Yousafzai
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If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.
Denis Diderot
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He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal greatness.
Bob Sorge
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Becoming a monster sometimes isn't a choice that you have. We're all that; we're all 'the other' in one way or another.
Emil Ferris
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
Gayle Forman
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
William Hazlitt