Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

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Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Lewis, Joe E.

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Harrington, Bob

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

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

Bible

19.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

21.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Sue, Eugene

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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

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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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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

31.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

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

33.

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

Herold, Don

34.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

40.

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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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

Seneca

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.