Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Sue, Eugene

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Pitt, William

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

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Farquhar, George

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.

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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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.

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

Bible

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Phaedrus

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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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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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

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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

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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