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

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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 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

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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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pitt, William

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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 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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Phaedrus

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Herold, Don

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Marquand, John

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Farquhar, George

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.