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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Baldwin, James

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Marquand, John

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

10.

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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Todd, Mike

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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 is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

Proverb, English

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Pitt, William

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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 must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

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

Pitt, William

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Moore, George

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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Seneca

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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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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

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bible

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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