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

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

Bible

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

France, Anatole

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

Bible

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

10.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Herold, Don

16.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

18.

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.

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Moore, George

21.

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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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

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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

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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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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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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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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

32.

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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

37.

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

Pitt, William

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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

39.

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

Sue, Eugene

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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

44.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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