Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

- Landon, Melville D.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mother Teresa

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phaedrus

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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.

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

Moore, George

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

Marx, Groucho

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, James

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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