Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

- Seneca

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Bible

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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

Mother Teresa

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Billings, Josh

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

Baldwin, James

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

France, Anatole

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Todd, Mike

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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 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 has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Phaedrus

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

Seneca

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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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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.