Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Bible

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

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

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

France, Anatole

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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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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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 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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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Mother Teresa

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Todd, Mike

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Farquhar, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, English

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

Phaedrus

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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.