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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

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.

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Gardner, John W.

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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

18.

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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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Marquand, John

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

33.

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

France, Anatole

34.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

42.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Phaedrus

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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