Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Todd, Mike

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Steinem, Gloria

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Baldwin, James

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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

Phaedrus

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

17.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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

25.

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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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

27.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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.

30.

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

Bernanos, Georges

31.

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.

32.

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

Gardner, John W.

33.

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

Seneca

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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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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

38.

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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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 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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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Herold, Don

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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

47.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Seneca

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian