Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Todd, Mike

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marquand, John

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Mother Teresa

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

Bible

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

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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

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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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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Reagan, Ronald

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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