Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

A poor man is all schemes.

- Proverb, Spanish

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

1.

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

Farquhar, George

2.

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

France, Anatole

3.

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

Bible

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

7.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

8.

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

Landon, Melville D.

9.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

13.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

14.

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

15.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

16.

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

Bible

17.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

18.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

19.

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

20.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

21.

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

22.

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

Moore, George

23.

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

24.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

25.

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

26.

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

Herold, Don

27.

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

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

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.

30.

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

Todd, Mike

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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.

33.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

34.

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

Seneca

35.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

36.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

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

Steinem, Gloria

38.

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.

39.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

40.

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

41.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

Phaedrus

47.

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

Todd, Mike

48.

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