Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

- Billings, Josh

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

France, Anatole

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

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

Todd, Mike

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Marquand, John

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Moore, George

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

Bernanos, Georges

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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

Landon, Melville D.

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gardner, John W.

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

James, William

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Mother Teresa

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pitt, William

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