Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Gardner, John W.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

Seneca

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pitt, William

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

14.

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

Moore, George

15.

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 hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

17.

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

Todd, Mike

18.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Harrington, Bob

22.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

France, Anatole

27.

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

Sue, Eugene

28.

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

29.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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

Herold, Don

44.

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

Marx, Groucho

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Marquand, John

47.

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

48.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

49.

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

50.

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