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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb

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.

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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Farquhar, George

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Todd, Mike

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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