Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

- Mccarthy, Mary

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, James

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Herold, Don

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Moore, George

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

24.

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

25.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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 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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

30.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sue, Eugene

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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

33.

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

Bible

34.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

35.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

36.

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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

44.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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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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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard