Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

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

Proverb

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

10.

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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pitt, William

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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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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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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

16.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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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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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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Phaedrus

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Moore, George

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

Seneca

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Gardner, John W.

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)