Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

12.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lewis, Joe E.

17.

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

Todd, Mike

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mother Teresa

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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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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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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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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 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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Phaedrus

40.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

46.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Billings, Josh

49.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul