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

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.

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Proverb, English

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

11.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Seneca

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marquand, John

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

Gardner, John W.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Todd, Mike

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bible

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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