Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

Bible

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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Whitman, Walt

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

11.

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Marquand, John

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Todd, Mike

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bible

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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 an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Bagehot, Walter

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Pitt, William