Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Proverb

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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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

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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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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

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

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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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

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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.

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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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Moore, George

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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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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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 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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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

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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