Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Marx, Groucho

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Phaedrus

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

10.

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bible

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Farquhar, George

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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.