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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Harrington, Bob

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

10.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Gardner, John W.

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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Hegel, Georg

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

24.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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

28.

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

Bible

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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Mother Teresa

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, English

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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

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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew