Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

- Michelet, Jules

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Marx, Groucho

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pitt, William

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Herold, Don

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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phaedrus

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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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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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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

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Marquand, John

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Pitt, William

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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