Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Billings, Josh

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Todd, Mike

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.

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

Pitt, William

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

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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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

11.

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

Proverb, English

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

17.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

Mother Teresa

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Moore, George

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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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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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 is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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