Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mother Teresa

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pitt, William

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

Marx, Groucho

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Sue, Eugene

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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

11.

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

Proverb

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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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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

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Herold, Don

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

Marquand, John

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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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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 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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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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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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I worked myself up from nothing to 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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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bible

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

Todd, Mike

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

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Seneca

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James