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

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

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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

Phaedrus

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pitt, William

19.

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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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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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

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pitt, William

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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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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.

37.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bible

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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'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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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

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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.