Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Gardner, John W.

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

Moore, George

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mother Teresa

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Pitt, William

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

Marquand, John

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Todd, Mike

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

Proverb, English

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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

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb

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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

39.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.