Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

- Reston, James

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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

France, Anatole

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Seneca

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Todd, Mike

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

Moore, George

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pitt, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Herold, Don

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, English

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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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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