Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb, English

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Bible

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

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Bible

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Gardner, John W.

10.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pitt, William

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Moore, George

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

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

Baldwin, James

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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.