Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

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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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 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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Farquhar, George

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Phaedrus

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bernanos, Georges

32.

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Hegel, Georg

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Marquand, John

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

Proverb, English

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Harrington, Bob

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