The Poor Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.

The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

A Very Short Poem for Poor LoversYou’ve got nothing, I’ve got nothing, And it’s not a good thing.

Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!

If you want to know a person’s true character, observe how he treats those who don’t matter.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.

I am here not to save money but to make more of it to empower the people and make the world a better place.

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

The Lord has unlimited resources to meet your every need.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

You may perform poorly, but your "poorly" may not be as "badly" as others may say it is. Your "poorly" is "excellent" provided you make amendments on it!

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken

God has great riches for you. If thy will seek Him.

Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.

The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!

Give dry bread to a rich kid and he will throw it into the dustbin, give it to the poor kid and he will remember your name for the rest of his days

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It's hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don't need to make it even harder on each other.

Life… For some it is battle for others its dance...For rich it is party for poor it is chance!

I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways.

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.