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

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

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Proverb, English

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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

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

Proverb

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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

Phaedrus

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

10.

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

Bernanos, Georges

11.

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

Pitt, William

12.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

18.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Mother Teresa

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

32.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Pitt, William

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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

40.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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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.