Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Landon, Melville D.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Phaedrus

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

France, Anatole

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

Bible

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.

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

15.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

16.

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

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Sue, Eugene

19.

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

20.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

25.

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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Seneca

28.

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

Harrington, Bob

29.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

30.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

31.

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

Gardner, John W.

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

34.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

35.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

36.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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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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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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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