Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Empty pockets make empty heads.

- Williams, William Carlos

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Marquand, John

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Bible

10.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Mother Teresa

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Steinem, Gloria

20.

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

21.

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

France, Anatole

22.

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

23.

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

Bernanos, Georges

24.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

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

Farquhar, George

27.

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

Todd, Mike

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Gardner, John W.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, English

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

37.

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

Phaedrus

38.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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.

Hugo, Victor

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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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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.

42.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

44.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

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

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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 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

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Pitt, William