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

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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

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

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.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

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

Gardner, John W.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Harrington, Bob

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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 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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, English

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

Pitt, William

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Marquand, John

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Farquhar, George

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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