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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Moore, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Seneca

10.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

11.

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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Todd, Mike

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

Marx, Groucho

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Gardner, John W.

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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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 wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Marquand, John

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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.

42.

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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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.

44.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Phaedrus

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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