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

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

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

10.

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

11.

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

Harrington, Bob

12.

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

13.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Bernanos, Georges

18.

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

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

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.

21.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Herold, Don

24.

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

Moore, George

25.

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

Pitt, William

26.

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

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

France, Anatole

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

35.

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

Todd, Mike

36.

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

37.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

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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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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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 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

42.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

48.

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

Marx, Groucho

49.

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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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