Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Malthus, Thomas Robert

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Pitt, William

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Mother Teresa

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

Moore, George

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

Herold, Don

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bible

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Harrington, Bob

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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