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

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

Farquhar, George

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sue, Eugene

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Phaedrus

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb

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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.