Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Moore, George

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

Seneca

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Proverb

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

Mother Teresa

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Phaedrus

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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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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 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've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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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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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Farquhar, George

43.

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

Bible

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Proverb, English

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert