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

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

Herold, Don

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

Bible

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

Todd, Mike

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

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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

Sue, Eugene

10.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

12.

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

Proverb

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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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Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

George, David Lloyd

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bible

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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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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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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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Harrington, Bob

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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 who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

37.

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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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Pitt, William

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Shaw, George Bernard