Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

France, Anatole

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

Marx, Groucho

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

11.

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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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Herold, Don

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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

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Whitman, Walt

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Phaedrus

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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bible

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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

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Bernanos, Georges

45.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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.