Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Mother Teresa

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Pitt, William

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Proverb

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Marquand, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Baldwin, James

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Herold, Don

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

Seneca

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh