To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.
Poverty is unnecessary.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.