Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

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Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Marquand, John

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

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

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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

Phaedrus

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Farquhar, George

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Gardner, John W.

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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

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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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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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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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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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I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pitt, William

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

Billings, Josh

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

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