Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Baldwin, James

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Marquand, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

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

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Phaedrus

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

15.

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

Smith, Sydney

16.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

18.

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

19.

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

Bernanos, Georges

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

24.

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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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Pitt, William

27.

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

Steinem, Gloria

28.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

29.

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.

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Todd, Mike

32.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

33.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

34.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

35.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

36.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

37.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

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 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

40.

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 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

42.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Seneca

48.

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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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

50.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)