Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb, Hebrew

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

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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

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

Todd, Mike

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

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

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

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Bible

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

10.

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

Seneca

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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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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

14.

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

Phaedrus

15.

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

Pitt, William

16.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, English

21.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

22.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

23.

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

Moore, George

25.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Gardner, John W.

32.

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

33.

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

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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

France, Anatole

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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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Bible

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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 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

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Todd, Mike

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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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A poor man is all schemes.