Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Sue, Eugene

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Seneca

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

Harrington, Bob

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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 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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Seneca

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Farquhar, George

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Smith, Sydney

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.