Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Harrington, Bob

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

Bible

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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 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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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 worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Landon, Melville D.

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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

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

Mother Teresa

29.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Proverb, English

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Gardner, John W.

37.

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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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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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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.

41.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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.