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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Pitt, William

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Todd, Mike

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

Proverb, English

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

22.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

23.

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

Bernanos, Georges

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

27.

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

Marquand, John

28.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

30.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Phaedrus

34.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

35.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

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

France, Anatole

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Steinem, Gloria

48.

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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma