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

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

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

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

10.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

Bernanos, Georges

13.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

14.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

15.

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.

16.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

17.

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

18.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

19.

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

Landon, Melville D.

20.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

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

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

23.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

25.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

26.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Marquand, John

33.

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

Todd, Mike

34.

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

35.

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

Pitt, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Steinem, Gloria

40.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

41.

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

42.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Todd, Mike

44.

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.

45.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

47.

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

48.

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

Mother Teresa

49.

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

50.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon