Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Mother Teresa

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)

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.

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

Baldwin, James

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Marquand, John

11.

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

Steinem, Gloria

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Mother Teresa

23.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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.

27.

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

Gardner, John W.

28.

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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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

30.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Sue, Eugene

34.

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

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

39.

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.

40.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

41.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

42.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, English

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

Pitt, William

48.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.