Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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.

In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Smith, Sydney

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Todd, Mike

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Marquand, John

21.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Bernanos, Georges

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

27.

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

Gardner, John W.

28.

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

Pitt, William

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

France, Anatole

33.

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

34.

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

Mother Teresa

35.

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

36.

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

Seneca

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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

39.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

40.

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

Phaedrus

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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

42.

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

Sue, Eugene

43.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

44.

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

Moore, George

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

47.

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

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho