Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Landon, Melville D.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Moore, George

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

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

Harrington, Bob

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Pitt, William

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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

Farquhar, George

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Herold, Don

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Billings, Josh

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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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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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Seneca

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb

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

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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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.

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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.