Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

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

Bible

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

10.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Smith, Sydney

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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.

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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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 is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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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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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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

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb

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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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