Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

- Proverb

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Pitt, William

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Todd, Mike

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Pitt, William

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

Sue, Eugene

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Phaedrus

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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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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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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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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Moore, George

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

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marx, Groucho