Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Marquand, John

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

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Pitt, William

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Pitt, William

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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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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 is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Mother Teresa

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

Billings, Josh

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Proverb

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

Smith, Sydney

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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