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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

10.

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

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

14.

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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

17.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Bible

22.

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

Pitt, William

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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.

24.

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

Bible

26.

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

Herold, Don

28.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

33.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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

Todd, Mike

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

Farquhar, George

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Pitt, William

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

47.

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 is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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