Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

- Wilde, Oscar

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Marx, Groucho

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Phaedrus

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

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Marquand, John

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

Baldwin, James

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

Smith, Sydney

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Seneca

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

Moore, George

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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

28.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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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

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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

Bible

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Farquhar, George

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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

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

Sue, Eugene

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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.