Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Bible

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bible

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

Proverb

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Seneca

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Wilde, Oscar

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Phaedrus

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Marquand, John

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Pitt, William

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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Steinem, Gloria

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Moore, George

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos