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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Moore, George

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Farquhar, George

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

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

Bible

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Marquand, John

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

Proverb

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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.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian