Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

- Seneca

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

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

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

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

11.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

17.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

18.

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

20.

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

Bernanos, Georges

21.

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.

22.

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

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

Todd, Mike

26.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marquand, John

32.

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

Todd, Mike

33.

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

34.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bible

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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

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

Bible

41.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

42.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Mother Teresa

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pitt, William

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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