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

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

Farquhar, George

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 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

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

Pitt, William

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.

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

Bible

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

10.

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

11.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

12.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

13.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

14.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

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

Gardner, John W.

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

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

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

19.

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

20.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

21.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

23.

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

24.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

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

Marquand, John

26.

At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

27.

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

28.

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

29.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

30.

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

31.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

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

Harrington, Bob

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Steinem, Gloria

36.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

37.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

40.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

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

46.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

47.

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.

48.

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

Bernanos, Georges

49.

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

Bible

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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