Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Proverb, English

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.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

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

Bible

11.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Todd, Mike

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Marquand, John

18.

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

Farquhar, George

19.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

20.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

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

29.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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

France, Anatole

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Pitt, William

34.

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

Phaedrus

35.

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

Gardner, John W.

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Steinem, Gloria

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Marx, Groucho

42.

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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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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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

45.

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

Harrington, Bob

46.

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