The Poor Quotes

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas.

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

Habits are the determinant of who will be rich or be poor.

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.

People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich, ” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

To be poor in spirit is to recognize one’s need to receive help

To be poor in spirit is an attitude of humility that is willing to turn from personal pursuits to seek God’s righteousness

Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

Leaders should never alienate themselves from the poor, if their main aim is to alleviate poverty.

The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.

Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.

The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.

If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty.

Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.

The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.

There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.

Juice is a poor man’s dessert.

Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine

If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.