Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

- Marx, Groucho

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

France, Anatole

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Herold, Don

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

Bible

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

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Seneca

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

10.

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

12.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

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

Mother Teresa

17.

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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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

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

22.

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

Farquhar, George

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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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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

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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

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

Marquand, John

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Todd, Mike

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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

41.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

46.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb