Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pitt, William

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Seneca

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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

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

Pitt, William

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

Mother Teresa

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Marquand, John

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Harrington, Bob

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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 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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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