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

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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

France, Anatole

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

Pitt, William

When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

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

Moore, George

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Phaedrus

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Farquhar, George

37.

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

Billings, Josh

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, English

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

43.

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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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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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Herold, Don

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

Sue, Eugene