Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Proverb, English

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Herold, Don

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

Harrington, Bob

12.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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

Seneca

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Yiddish