Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Baldwin, James

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

13.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

14.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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

19.

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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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

23.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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.

28.

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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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

31.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Marquand, John

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

Sue, Eugene

35.

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

Gardner, John W.

36.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Moore, George

45.

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

Seneca

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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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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

49.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos