The Poor Quotes

The Poor Quote of the day

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!