Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Seneca

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Pitt, William

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Marquand, John

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

Todd, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

16.

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

Phaedrus

17.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

18.

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Moore, George

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Harrington, Bob

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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

28.

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

Herold, Don

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

35.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

36.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

42.

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

Seneca

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Pitt, William

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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