Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Sue, Eugene

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

France, Anatole

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

Steinem, Gloria

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Sue, Eugene

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Bible

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Marquand, John

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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 worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Baldwin, James