Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

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

Seneca

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herold, Don

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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

22.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb

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

Bible

25.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Pitt, William

27.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

28.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Marquand, John

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

Todd, Mike

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Mother Teresa

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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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The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

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

Phaedrus

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

Sue, Eugene

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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