Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

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

Sue, Eugene

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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

Seneca

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

France, Anatole

10.

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

11.

The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

12.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Wilde, Oscar

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When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

Camara, Dom H.

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Herold, Don

18.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

20.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Gardner, John W.

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Hegel, Georg

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

27.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Bernanos, Georges

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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

35.

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Proverb, English

40.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

41.

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

Harrington, Bob

42.

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

Bible

43.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

44.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Pitt, William

48.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mother Teresa

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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.