Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

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

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sue, Eugene

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Todd, Mike

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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

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

Moore, George

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Pitt, William

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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 a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Seneca

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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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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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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

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Smith, Sydney

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Landon, Melville D.