Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Marx, Groucho

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Bible

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

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

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

Proverb, English

10.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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 step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Gardner, John W.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Marquand, John

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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

23.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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

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

Phaedrus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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