Motivational Quotes

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Smith, Sydney

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Mother Teresa

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

Phaedrus

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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.

32.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pitt, William

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.