Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Landon, Melville D.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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

Proverb

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

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

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 is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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

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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 has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb