Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Todd, Mike

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Baldwin, James

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marquand, John

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

10.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Mother Teresa

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

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Seneca

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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 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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

44.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

45.

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

46.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Pitt, William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De