Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Moore, George

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Billings, Josh

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

Herold, Don

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Marquand, John

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

Phaedrus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Seneca

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

22.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

24.

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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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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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

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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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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

39.

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

Todd, Mike

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Baldwin, James

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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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

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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