Best poor & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Assignment in Eternity

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

People Needs May Littles Self Use Seems Courses Difficult Wealth Poor Rich Share Materials Property Sufficient Apartment Poor People No Love Interdependence Material Things Self Sufficient

Author:Jean Vanier

“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.”

Giving Doe Soul Self Facts America Purpose Community Poor Greater Comfort Offers Concepts Lonely Constitution Hungry Clothings Shelter Homeless Ordinances

Author:Pope Paul VI

“At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?”

Self Poor Behavior Judgment Defense Justification Self Defense Bad Behavior

Author:Dan Gelber

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.”

Thinking Should Self Helping Government Interest Poor Worry Industry Lows Fingers Italian Initiative Businessman Self Interest Morale Help The Poor

Author:Diego Della Valle

“I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.”

Giving Self Done Pleasure Poor Tables Pleasant Now And Then Good Living

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.”

Thinking Ends Self Remember Difficult Poor Rich Pride Pity Self Pity Rich Or Poor Being Bad

Author:Alejandro Zambra

“In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”

People Self Lasts Social Poor Situation Produce Expression Resources Capacity Chaos Desperate Rebellion Existential Sensibility Poor People Resorts Avenues

Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.”

Men Mind Self Poor Rich Twenties Blind Cheese Mice Destroyers Blind Man

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.”

Needs May Self Matter Poor Forever Self Love Honor Please Strive Seeking Substitutes Approval Impress Adore Family And Friends Visceral Love And Honor

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.”

“With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.”

World Wells May War Self Nations Interest Poor This World Higher Capacity Destruction Luxury Technological Poor People Self Interest Self Destruction

Book:The Grand Chessboard

Source: The Grand Chessboard

“Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!”

Mean Self Dies Poor Pieces Fool Suicide Things To Do Heroism Slaughter Better Things To Do

Author:George Darley

“People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.”

People Self Poor Poor Self Image

Author:Paddy Considine

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes

“a self-made martyr is a poor thing.”

Made Self Poor Sacrifice Martyr Self Made

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Heart Ends Self Body Might Jesus Poor Holy Charity Seeking Guides Your Body Ghost God Love Motive Goods Shed Burned Alas Holy Ghost Charitable Brethren Destitute

Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis

“That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.”

Knows Needs Feels Important Self Values Poor Money Knowing Achieve Fame Commitment Pursuit Self Worth Secure Dedication Traits Dirt

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.”

Men Made Self Jobs Poor Pride Proud Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Ethel Mumford

“One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective treatment should address suppressed emotions-such as anxiety and self-image-as well as the physical dimension. To achieve this, they encourage correction of poor posture, and helping the person relax the irrelevant respiratory muscles while restoring full diaphragmatic breathing. They also recommended finding ways for getting rid of excess mucus. The good news is that a well rounded breath practice will do all these things.”

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.”

Self Poor Mistake Defeat Glasses Symbols Imperfection Overwhelming Magnifying Magnifying Glass Poor Self Image

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.”

Feels Self Girl Social Poor Boys Skills Invisible Rejected Inability Loathing Self Loathing Social Skills

Author:Warren Farrell

“That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.”

Should Mind Soul Self States Girl Sex Poor Money Marriage Treats Sells Income Bread Titles Farmers Sheep Diamond Estates Lowest Inner Self Degradation That Girl Oxen

Book:Framley parsonage

Source: Framley parsonage

“There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.”

Men Self Memories Poor Satisfied Poor Memory

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.”

“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.”

“We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.”

Self Law Poor Common Policy Economics Selfishness Legislation Preservation Monopoly Famine Self Preservation High Prices

Book:Essays, Orations and Lectures

Source: Essays, Orations and Lectures

“Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires. There is a beautiful and very radical notion in the bible: Man is made in the image of God, no matter how sick, poor or damaged he is. We should try to transpose this maxim to our secular and constitutional self-image.”

Men Should Trying Humans Made Self Matter Action Beautiful Desire Human Beings Poor Moral Limits Standards Sick Notion Radical Secular Maxims God Image

Author:Gotz Aly

“As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.”

“When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor.”

People Want Self Poor Skills Empowerment India Missions Self Confidence Pockets Filling Sense Of Self

Author:Narendra Modi

“I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.”

Thinking Years Long Made Self Poor Acting New York Couple Long Time Models Convinced Broke Attractive Supermodel Poor Self Image

Author:Geena Davis

“The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.”

“Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.”

Real Self Poor Leader Movement Mass Percent Iraq Population Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.”

World Soul Self Whole Action Poor Secret Poverty Safe Critics Debate Whole World Your Soul Smallest Invasion Secret Places

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

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