Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Mother Teresa

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

17.

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

Bernanos, Georges

18.

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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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

20.

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

Bible

21.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

25.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

28.

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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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

30.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Phaedrus

33.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

34.

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

35.

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

Moore, George

37.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

39.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

40.

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

Landon, Melville D.

41.

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

Farquhar, George

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

43.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

44.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

46.

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

Todd, Mike

47.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

48.

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

Marquand, John

49.

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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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