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 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

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.

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

Bernanos, Georges

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Pitt, William

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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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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Seneca

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Smith, Sydney

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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, English

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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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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.