Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Phaedrus

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Bible

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

Marx, Groucho

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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

Moore, George

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

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

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sue, Eugene

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

Proverb

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

Harrington, Bob

14.

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

Bible

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Herold, Don

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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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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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca

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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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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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 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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, English

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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.

48.

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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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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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul