Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

- Michelet, Jules

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Billings, Josh

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

19.

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

Herold, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mother Teresa

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Moore, George