Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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.

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

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

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

13.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Marquand, John

15.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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

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

Mother Teresa

20.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Sue, Eugene

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

Gardner, John W.

26.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, English

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

Herold, Don

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Henry IV

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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