Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Todd, Mike

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

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.

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

Pitt, William

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

Pitt, William

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

Phaedrus

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

10.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

11.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Farquhar, George

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

Billings, Josh

21.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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

Harrington, Bob

27.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

28.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Herold, Don

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

Steinem, Gloria

40.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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

Marquand, John

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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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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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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma