Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- France, Anatole

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Farquhar, George

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herold, Don

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

Pitt, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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

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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.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sue, Eugene

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Marquand, John

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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.

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Harrington, Bob

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

France, Anatole

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

Mother Teresa

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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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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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