Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Sydney

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Sue, Eugene

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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

43.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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