Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Seneca

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baldwin, James

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mother Teresa

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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

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marquand, John

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

Proverb, English

19.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Moore, George

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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

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

Bible

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Phaedrus

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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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

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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 is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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

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

Pitt, William

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