Poor Quotes

• 

  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Helping Others

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

  206 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Love, Mother, Work

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

  181 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Hunger And Poverty

  115 Copy quote

• There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

  Henry George

  Money, Work, Way

  "Social Problems".

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.85

  158 Copy quote

  Show source

• Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Law, Justice

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 386

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Money, Crazy, Cat

  230 Copy quote
• 

  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strength, Inspiring, Dream

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

  148 Copy quote

  Show source

• As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Compassion, Our World, Long

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

  150 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Poor Nations, Would Be

  13 Copy quote

• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

  74 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Justice, Overcoming

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

  191 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Kings, Book, Desire

  28 Copy quote

• O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Justice, Earth, Ease

  10 Copy quote

• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Evil Government, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Black, Poverty

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Affluence creates poverty.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Poverty, Affluence

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

  Willem de Kooning

  Time, Poverty, Trouble

  110 Copy quote

• Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Museums, Luxury

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.223, PublicAffairs

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

  Ajahn Chah

  Understanding, Mind, Suffering

  190 Copy quote

• Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Reflection, Simple

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 25, 2014

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

  Pope Francis

  Voice, Giving, Tasks

  10 Copy quote

• Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Struggle, Greatness, Doors

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.428, Cosimo, Inc.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source