Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Pitt, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Billings, Josh

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

10.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Phaedrus

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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 poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

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

Seneca

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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 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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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

Mother Teresa

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English