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 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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Baldwin, James

10.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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.

19.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Harrington, Bob

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Proverb

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

30.

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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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

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

37.

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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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

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

Proverb, English

41.

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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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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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