Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Empty pockets make empty heads.

- Williams, William Carlos

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Moore, George

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Farquhar, George

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.

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

11.

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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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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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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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 the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Gardner, John W.

20.

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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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Sue, Eugene

27.

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

Marquand, John

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Phaedrus

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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bernanos, Georges

35.

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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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