The Poor Quotes

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

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

Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

My mother told me, “Son, it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.” I have tried very hard to heed those words.

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

Failure is part of the process of success.

What you don’t know keeps you poor.

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.