Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Todd, Mike

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Sue, Eugene

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.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

10.

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

11.

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 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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

14.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

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

Herold, Don

17.

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

20.

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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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

22.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

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

28.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

29.

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

Bible

30.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Pitt, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Moore, George

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

Proverb, English

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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

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

47.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

48.

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

Landon, Melville D.

49.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.