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

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.

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

Bible

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.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

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

Pitt, William

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

Seneca

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

Sue, Eugene

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Marquand, John

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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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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

21.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Billings, Josh

24.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

29.

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

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

Bible

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

Mother Teresa

35.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Todd, Mike

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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