Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

James, William

10.

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

Todd, Mike

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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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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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.

22.

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

Phaedrus

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Billings, Josh

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

28.

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

Pitt, William

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

Moore, George

30.

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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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

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 the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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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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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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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Seneca

43.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Herold, Don

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

Bible

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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 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 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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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.