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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

Marx, Groucho

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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Farquhar, George

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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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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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At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Phaedrus

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

36.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Mother Teresa

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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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Proverb, Hebrew