Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Farquhar, George

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

Smith, Sydney

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Sue, Eugene

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.

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

Pitt, William

10.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

15.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mother Teresa

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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 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

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Pitt, William

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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Kerr, Jean

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

Marquand, John

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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

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Feiffer, Jules

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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.

36.

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

Seneca

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Marx, Groucho

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Todd, Mike

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

Phaedrus

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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

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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