Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Baldwin, James

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bible

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

Herold, Don

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

10.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Marquand, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Bible

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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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

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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

27.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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

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

Pitt, William

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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 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

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Mother Teresa

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Proverb, English

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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.

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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.