Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

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

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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

Farquhar, George

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pitt, William

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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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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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

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Smith, Sydney

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Seneca

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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

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Gardner, John W.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb

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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

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Phaedrus