Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Moore, George

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bible

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Todd, Mike

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Seneca

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, English

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Baldwin, James

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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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