Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Bible

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 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

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

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

Proverb, English

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

10.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Baldwin, James

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

Herold, Don

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

Phaedrus

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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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

Marquand, John

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 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 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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

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

Seneca