Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Seneca

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Todd, Mike

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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 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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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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.

25.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Smith, Sydney

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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