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“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Wealth Effort Poverty Materials Achievement Overcoming Mere Acknowledge Disgrace

Book:The History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.”

States United Poverty United States Contemporary Annoying Disgrace

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.”

Men Hard Happiness Suffering Names Poverty Disgrace Happy Man

Author:Horace

“True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.”

Religion Suffering Poverty Teach Humility Divine Despite Reverence Disgrace Mockery True Religion Wretchedness Suffering And Death

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.”

Men Poor Poverty Disgrace Inconvenient

Author:Sydney Smith

“I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born”

Country Interest Born Liberty Poverty Rights Influence Danger Son Ambition Sacred Terror Motive My Son Betray Posterity Disgrace Transmit

Author:George Mason

“Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.”

Poverty Disgrace Inconvenient

Author:Milton Berle

“The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."”

People Ifs Way Doe Said Desire Hate Names Wealth Poverty Masters Amount Honor Worthy Gentleman Meals Abandon Despise Distress Avoided Disgrace Urgency

Author:Confucius