Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Proverb

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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.

24.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Pitt, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, English

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Seneca

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Moore, George

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Marquand, John

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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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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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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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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