Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Todd, Mike

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, English

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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 the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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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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 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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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Moore, George

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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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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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

Sue, Eugene

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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

32.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

35.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Baldwin, 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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb

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

Phaedrus

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

Pitt, William

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos