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

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

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Baldwin, James

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

Moore, George

11.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pitt, William

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

Billings, Josh

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Mother Teresa

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

Bible

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

Farquhar, George

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

Seneca

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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

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

Marquand, John

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Herold, Don

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

40.

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Landon, Melville D.