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 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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Todd, Mike

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

10.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

12.

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

Proverb

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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

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

Pitt, William

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

Seneca

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

Marquand, John

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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 worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

38.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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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

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