Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Pitt, William

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.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

Baldwin, James

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

11.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Seneca

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bible

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

Bible

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Phaedrus

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

Pitt, William

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, English