Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Todd, Mike

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Proverb, English

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pitt, William

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

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

Sue, Eugene

10.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

11.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

12.

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

Pitt, William

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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Eliot, George

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Todd, Mike

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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

Seneca

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Phaedrus

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

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 is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]

Bible

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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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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