Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

- Baldwin, James

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Crisp, Quentin

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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that.And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Springsteen, Bruce

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At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]

Bible

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Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Sue, Eugene

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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Kerr, Jean

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Mother Teresa

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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Eliot, George

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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

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Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

George, David Lloyd

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The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Harrington, Bob

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Pitt, William

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

Proverb, English

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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

James, William