Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

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

Phaedrus

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pitt, William

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

16.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marquand, John

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

Bible

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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

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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