Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb, Hebrew

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

Bible

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Proverb, English

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

Pitt, William

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marquand, John

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Smith, Sydney

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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 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.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Herold, Don

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

Pitt, William

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush