Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Todd, Mike

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

Moore, George

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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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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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pitt, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

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

Smith, Sydney

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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

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

Herold, Don

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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