Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

- Todd, Mike

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Pitt, William

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pitt, William

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

Harrington, Bob

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bible

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

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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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 is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Herold, Don

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

Gardner, John W.

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

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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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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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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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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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb

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