Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Sue, Eugene

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Phaedrus

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bible

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Marquand, John

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

Todd, Mike

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

Pitt, William

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

Pitt, William

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Seneca

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Hegel, Georg

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

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

France, Anatole