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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

Bible

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

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

Pitt, William

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

14.

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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The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

16.

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

Seneca

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

22.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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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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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

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Sue, Eugene

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

31.

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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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

37.

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Harrington, Bob

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bernanos, Georges

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.