Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Harrington, Bob

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Seneca

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Pitt, William

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Sue, Eugene

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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 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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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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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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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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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 the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Proverb, English

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

Mother Teresa

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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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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

France, Anatole