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

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

Gardner, John W.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Moore, George

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

Phaedrus

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, Hebrew

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pitt, William

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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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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