Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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 worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, English

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Todd, Mike

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Pitt, William

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Marquand, John

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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