The Poor Quotes

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree or a professional degree are not poor.

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.

I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.

My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.