Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Smith, Sydney

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pitt, William

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb

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

10.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

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

Steinem, Gloria

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

17.

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

18.

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

Harrington, Bob

19.

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

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

24.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

27.

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

Phaedrus

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Landon, Melville D.

34.

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

35.

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

Farquhar, George

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Pitt, William

39.

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

40.

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

Todd, Mike

41.

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

42.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

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

44.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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.

50.

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