Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

A poor man is all schemes.

- Proverb, Spanish

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Farquhar, George

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

10.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

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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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

13.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

18.

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

19.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

21.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

23.

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

Proverb, English

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

Mother Teresa

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

Bible

28.

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

Pitt, William

29.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Bible

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

Harrington, Bob

33.

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

34.

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

Herold, Don

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

Todd, Mike

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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.

38.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

40.

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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

42.

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

Bible

44.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

45.

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

Proverb

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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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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

48.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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

Phaedrus

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

Marquand, John