Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Seneca

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Phaedrus

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Seneca

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Mother Teresa

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

Todd, Mike

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Wilde, Oscar

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gardner, John W.

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible