Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb, English

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

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

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

Mother Teresa

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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 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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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

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

Pitt, William

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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

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

Marquand, John

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Harrington, Bob

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, English

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

Herold, Don

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Farquhar, George

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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.

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

Bible

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh