Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Herold, Don

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

Todd, Mike

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Mother Teresa

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

Pitt, William

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Smith, Sydney

10.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

20.

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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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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 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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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 worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Herold, Don

31.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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

34.

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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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

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

Marquand, John

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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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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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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb

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

Farquhar, George

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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

Harrington, Bob

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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