Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Gardner, John W.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

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

11.

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

Farquhar, George

12.

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

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

17.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

18.

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

Proverb

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

27.

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

Baldwin, James

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Marx, Groucho

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

41.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Herold, Don