Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

14.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

17.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

19.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

20.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

24.

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

Farquhar, George

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

27.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

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

Sue, Eugene

29.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Landon, Melville D.

31.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

32.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

34.

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

Marquand, John

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

Seneca

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

37.

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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

44.

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

Bible

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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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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

48.

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.

49.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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