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

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

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Moore, George

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

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Seneca

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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

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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

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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 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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James