Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Gardner, John W.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

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.

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

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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mother Teresa

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Todd, Mike

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Pitt, William

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Gardner, John W.