Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

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

Marquand, John

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

10.

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.

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Herold, Don

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Moore, George

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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

Bible

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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