Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Moore, George

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

Pitt, William

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Herold, Don

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

10.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

11.

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

12.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

13.

I worked myself up from nothing to 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

15.

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

Steinem, Gloria

16.

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

Seneca

17.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

18.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

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

Marquand, John

20.

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

Harrington, Bob

21.

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

Gardner, John W.

22.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

26.

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

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Seneca

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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

30.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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

32.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Bernanos, Georges

34.

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

35.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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

Bible

40.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

41.

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.

42.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Proverb, English

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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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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.

50.

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