Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Marx, Groucho

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Phaedrus

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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Farquhar, George

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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

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

Proverb

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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

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

Moore, George

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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 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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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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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 the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bible

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Pitt, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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