Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

- Michelet, Jules

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Moore, George

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pitt, William

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

Marquand, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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

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

Seneca

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Phaedrus

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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