Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

- Reston, James

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pitt, William

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

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Bible

10.

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

Harrington, Bob

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Phaedrus

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

24.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Sue, Eugene

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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.

33.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Landon, Melville D.