Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Moore, George

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Pitt, William

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sue, Eugene

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

James, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

17.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

Pitt, William

21.

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

22.

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

23.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

24.

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

25.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

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

Marquand, John

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

33.

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.

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

36.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

40.

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

Mother Teresa

41.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Herold, Don

46.

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