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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

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.

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Moore, George

I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

Pitt, William

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Pitt, William

13.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

14.

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

Bible

15.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

16.

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

Herold, Don

17.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

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

19.

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

Phaedrus

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

23.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Marquand, John

24.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

28.

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.

29.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

France, Anatole

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Sue, Eugene

41.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

42.

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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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

44.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

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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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Smith, Sydney

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