Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Seneca

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Bible

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

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

Farquhar, George

10.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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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

16.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Pitt, William

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

Bible

25.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

38.

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

Marquand, John

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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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Seneca

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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

49.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Proverb, Hebrew