Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, English

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

13.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

Farquhar, George

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

Phaedrus

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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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 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

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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 is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Pitt, William

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

Sue, Eugene

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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

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Yiddish