Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca

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

Proverb, English

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Marquand, John

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Pitt, William

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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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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Moore, George

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

France, Anatole

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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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

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, 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