Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Marx, Groucho

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

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

Smith, Sydney

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Seneca

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

Pitt, William

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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When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

Camara, Dom H.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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.

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

Proverb, English

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

Moore, George

18.

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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Marquand, John

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Herold, Don

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

Gardner, John W.

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