Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Smith, Sydney

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Wilde, Oscar

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

10.

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

Sue, Eugene

11.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

18.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

19.

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

Phaedrus

20.

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

France, Anatole

21.

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

Proverb

22.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

25.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

26.

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

Herold, Don

27.

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

Bible

30.

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Seneca

35.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

40.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

Todd, Mike

42.

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

Pitt, William

43.

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

Bible

44.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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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

47.

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

48.

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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Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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