Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Marquand, John

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Mother Teresa

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bible

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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

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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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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.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Proverb

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Pitt, William

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

Seneca

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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

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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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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