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

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mother Teresa

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Proverb, English

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

Bernanos, Georges

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Marquand, John

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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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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

39.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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