Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

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

Pitt, William

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

10.

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

Marquand, John

11.

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

Gardner, John W.

12.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Herold, Don

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

Bible

17.

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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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Phaedrus

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

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

France, Anatole

25.

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

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

Bible

27.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

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

30.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

31.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

32.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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.

34.

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

Steinem, Gloria

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Sue, Eugene

48.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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