Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

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Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

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

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Marquand, John

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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

France, Anatole

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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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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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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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

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

Bible

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When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

Camara, Dom H.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Billings, Josh

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Herold, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Harrington, Bob

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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

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

Gardner, John W.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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

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

Seneca

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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