Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

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.

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

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Todd, Mike

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Phaedrus

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Pitt, William

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

44.

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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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