Motivational Quotes

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mother Teresa

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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 man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

16.

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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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

29.

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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, English

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)