Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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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 that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Pitt, William

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Moore, George

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

Marquand, John

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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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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 worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Baldwin, James

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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