Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

- Billings, Josh

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Seneca

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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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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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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Pitt, William

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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 the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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 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

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

Baldwin, James

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

39.

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

Seneca

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

Todd, Mike

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gardner, John W.

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