Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

10.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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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

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

14.

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

Phaedrus

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

Bernanos, Georges

16.

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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

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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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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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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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.

22.

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

Marquand, John

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Steinem, Gloria

30.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

35.

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

Seneca

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bible

38.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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

40.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Todd, Mike

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

Harrington, Bob

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.