Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

- Parker, Theodore

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Seneca

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

Baldwin, James

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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

10.

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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

12.

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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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, English

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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.

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

Bible

30.

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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

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

Marquand, John

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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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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Phaedrus

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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.