Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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 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

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bible

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Farquhar, George

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that.And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Pitt, William

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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

39.

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

Seneca

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

Herold, Don

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

Proverb, English

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Phaedrus

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

Todd, Mike