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

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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

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

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Marquand, John

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Todd, Mike

12.

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

13.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

16.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

17.

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.

18.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

Bible

20.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

22.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

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

Moore, George

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Steinem, Gloria

27.

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

Landon, Melville D.

28.

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

Farquhar, George

29.

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

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

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.

32.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Gardner, John W.

34.

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

Harrington, Bob

35.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

38.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

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

Sue, Eugene

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Billings, Josh