Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Pitt, William

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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 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

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.

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

Landon, Melville D.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Proverb

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Phaedrus

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Marquand, John

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bernanos, Georges

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Harrington, Bob

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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

Pitt, William

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

Pitt, William

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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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Seneca

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

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