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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Proverb, Yiddish

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

10.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Phaedrus

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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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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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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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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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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

17.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Todd, Mike

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

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

Proverb

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Herold, Don

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

Moore, George

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

Pitt, William

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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

49.

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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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