Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Phaedrus

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Herold, Don

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Proverb

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Todd, Mike

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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

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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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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

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

Bible

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bible

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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

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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 has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules