Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Todd, Mike

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

Pitt, William

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bible

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

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

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Phaedrus

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

Marquand, John

18.

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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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

20.

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

21.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

24.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Herold, Don

31.

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

Steinem, Gloria

33.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, English

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

44.

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

Gardner, John W.

45.

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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

48.

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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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

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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