Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Phaedrus

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

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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Todd, Mike

13.

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

14.

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

Mother Teresa

15.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, English

24.

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

25.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

27.

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

Landon, Melville D.

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

31.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

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

Gardner, John W.

36.

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

Herold, Don

37.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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

41.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

42.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

49.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark