Poor Quotes

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that.

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.