Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Proverb, English

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

France, Anatole

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

11.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

12.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

16.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bernanos, Georges

18.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Bible

20.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

21.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Phaedrus

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

Steinem, Gloria

24.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

25.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Todd, Mike

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

Marquand, John

34.

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

35.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Moore, George

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mother Teresa

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

Bible

48.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

49.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A poor man is all schemes.