Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Moore, George

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

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

Seneca

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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Phaedrus

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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 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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Pitt, William

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Gardner, John W.

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

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

Pitt, 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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Farquhar, George

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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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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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