Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

12.

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

Pitt, William

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

Seneca

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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

Pitt, William

23.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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

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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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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

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Gardner, John W.

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sue, Eugene

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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

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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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I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

40.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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