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

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

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

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

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

Pitt, William

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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 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

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

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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

13.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

25.

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

Baldwin, James

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Bible

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

Landon, Melville D.

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Sue, Eugene

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

France, Anatole

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

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

Farquhar, George

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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