Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

- Reston, James

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

France, Anatole

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Smith, Sydney

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Mother Teresa

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Farquhar, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Harrington, Bob

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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Marquand, John

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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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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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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