Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Seneca

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Harrington, Bob

10.

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

Pitt, William

11.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

12.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, English

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

Todd, Mike

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Seneca

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

38.

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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wilde, Oscar