Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Seneca

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Harrington, Bob

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Phaedrus

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

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

11.

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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Farquhar, George

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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 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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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

43.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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 the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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