Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Pitt, William

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Moore, George

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

Herold, Don

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, English

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bernanos, Georges

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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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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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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.

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Seneca

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma