Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

- Billings, Josh

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Todd, Mike

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Billings, Josh

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Marx, Groucho

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Pitt, William

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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

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Gardner, John W.

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Proverb, English

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

Baldwin, James

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mother Teresa

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert