Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

James, William

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pitt, William

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Todd, Mike

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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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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Eliot, George

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that.And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Seneca

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.