Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Herold, Don

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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

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

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

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Moore, George

10.

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

Pitt, William

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

Marquand, John

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

Gardner, John W.

16.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Baldwin, James

18.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Pitt, William

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Steinem, Gloria

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phaedrus

31.

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

Farquhar, 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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Seneca

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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

39.

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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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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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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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

43.

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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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

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

Todd, Mike

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