Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

- Billings, Josh

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

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

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

Phaedrus

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Moore, George

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Bible

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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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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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Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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

Pitt, William

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Pitt, William

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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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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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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Smith, Sydney