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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Phaedrus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

Landon, Melville D.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Gardner, John W.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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.

19.

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

France, Anatole

20.

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

Pitt, William

21.

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.

22.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Todd, Mike

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

30.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

Marx, Groucho

33.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

34.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

35.

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

Pitt, William

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Mother Teresa

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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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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

44.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Harrington, Bob

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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.