Poor Quotes

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

People who give will never be poor.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Tax is for the poor or the stupid people.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

Being poor is a frame of mind.

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

He who hesitates is poor.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.