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

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

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Herold, Don

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

Proverb, English

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Farquhar, George

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bible

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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

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mother Teresa

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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