Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

- Fuller, Thomas

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Mother Teresa

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Pitt, William

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

Seneca

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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.

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

Seneca

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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

Todd, Mike

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pitt, William

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

Herold, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Phaedrus

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

Marquand, John