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

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

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

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

Bible

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

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Marquand, John

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Phaedrus

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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Kerr, Jean

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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

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Todd, Mike

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

Pitt, William

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Seneca

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Seneca

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

Herold, Don

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

Mother Teresa

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.