Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

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

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

Proverb

10.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Marquand, John

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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

16.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

21.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Mother Teresa

24.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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

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

Pitt, William

33.

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

Gardner, John W.

34.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

39.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Farquhar, George

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

Proverb, English

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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 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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt