Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, English

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

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

Harrington, Bob

12.

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

Landon, Melville D.

14.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

15.

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

France, Anatole

16.

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

18.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

21.

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

Farquhar, George

23.

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

24.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

25.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Todd, Mike

29.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Marquand, John

33.

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

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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

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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

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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

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Bible

39.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

40.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

42.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

44.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

45.

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

46.

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

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

48.

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

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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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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