Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Phaedrus

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

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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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bible

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

10.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

11.

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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Moore, George

14.

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

15.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bernanos, Georges

18.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Marquand, John

22.

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

Proverb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Pitt, William

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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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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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

Phaedrus

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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.

32.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Herold, Don

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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