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 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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Moore, George

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

10.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

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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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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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

15.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Todd, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Phaedrus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

28.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

35.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Pitt, William

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb