Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Seneca

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Marquand, John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

15.

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.

16.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

France, Anatole

17.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

18.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Todd, Mike

20.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

21.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

22.

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

23.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

Proverb

26.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Marx, Groucho

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

36.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

37.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

42.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

43.

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

Mother Teresa

44.

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

45.

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

Harrington, Bob

47.

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

48.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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