Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

You lose your manners when you're poor.

- Hellman, Lillian

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Proverb, English

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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

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

Marquand, John

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

10.

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

Baldwin, James

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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.

15.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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

22.

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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

29.

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

30.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sue, Eugene

32.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Harrington, Bob

39.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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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.

46.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pitt, William

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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.