Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Moore, George

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phaedrus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pitt, William

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Todd, Mike

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

Billings, Josh

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Baldwin, James

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bible

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James, William