Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Marquand, John

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Todd, Mike

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 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

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Seneca

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Pitt, William

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

Pitt, William

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Phaedrus