Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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

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

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Mother Teresa

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb

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

Marquand, John

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Phaedrus

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Harrington, Bob

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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 worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Todd, Mike

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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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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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 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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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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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