Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Harrington, Bob

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb, English

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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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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

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Proverb

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

Marquand, John

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pitt, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bible

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

Camara, Dom H.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Herold, Don

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Todd, Mike

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

Pitt, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Harrington, Bob

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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