Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- France, Anatole

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Proverb, English

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

14.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

15.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

16.

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

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

20.

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

Marquand, John

21.

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

Herold, Don

22.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

29.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Moore, George

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

35.

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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

37.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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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.

49.

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

Proverb

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert