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

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

Bible

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

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 the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

10.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

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

12.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

21.

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

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

France, Anatole

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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

28.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Herold, Don

30.

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

Pitt, William

31.

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

Landon, Melville D.

33.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

Seneca

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

Mother Teresa

36.

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

Marquand, John

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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.

41.

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

Phaedrus

42.

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

Bernanos, Georges

43.

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.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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.

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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.

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

50.

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.