Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Seneca

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gardner, John W.

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

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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.

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Smith, Sydney

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Marquand, John

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Harrington, Bob

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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

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Proverb

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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