Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Mother Teresa

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.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Billings, Josh

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marquand, John

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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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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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb

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

Gardner, John W.

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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 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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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish