Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

- France, Anatole

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Farquhar, George

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seneca

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Todd, Mike

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

Mother Teresa

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

Pitt, William

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

Phaedrus

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Harrington, Bob

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bernanos, Georges

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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Seneca

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