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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Pitt, William

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

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

Proverb, English

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

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

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

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Todd, Mike

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

Gardner, John W.

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

France, Anatole

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

Bible

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Herold, Don

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Mother Teresa

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Todd, Mike

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

Seneca

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bible