Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mother Teresa

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca

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

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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

10.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

13.

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

Landon, Melville D.

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Phaedrus

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Harrington, Bob

27.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

Bernanos, Georges

29.

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

Moore, George

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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Sue, Eugene

33.

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.

34.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

38.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

42.

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

43.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

46.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Billings, Josh

48.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

49.

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

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb