Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Marquand, John

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Todd, Mike

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Pitt, William

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

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

Pitt, William

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

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, English

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Bible

12.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

13.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Harrington, Bob

16.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

17.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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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

22.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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

25.

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

Steinem, Gloria

26.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

33.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

43.

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

Marquand, John

44.

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

Moore, George

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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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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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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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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

49.

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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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.