Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Billings, Josh

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Phaedrus

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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

22.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Herold, Don

27.

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

Marquand, John

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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 a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

30.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Smith, Sydney

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

France, Anatole

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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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Marx, Groucho