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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Marx, Groucho

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

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

10.

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

France, Anatole

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

13.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Sue, Eugene

17.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

19.

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

Baldwin, James

20.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Phaedrus

30.

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

Herold, Don

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

35.

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

Pitt, William

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

38.

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, English

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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.