Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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 and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

France, Anatole

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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

10.

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

Marquand, John

11.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

14.

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.

15.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

16.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

17.

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

Farquhar, George

18.

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

Herold, Don

19.

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

Sue, Eugene

20.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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.

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Pitt, William

24.

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

Phaedrus

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

29.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Marx, Groucho

36.

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

Todd, Mike

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Gardner, John W.

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Harrington, Bob

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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

45.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

48.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

49.

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

Pitt, William