Poor Quotes · Page 45

“It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

— Claudio Hummes

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

— Jackie Chan

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

— Robert McNamara

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

— Charles Barkley

I trained myself not to want things, because I thought I'd always be poor.

— Jean Marsh

When it comes to love women always have the poor and babble.

— Meicee

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor…

— Ray Bradbury

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here…

— Ann Romney

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World…

— Bob Geldof

In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are…

— George Orwell

Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they…

— Francois Fenelon

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to…

— Vladimir Putin

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy…

— Martina Navratilova

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!

— Cassandra Clare

There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for…

— Ian Svenonius

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her…

— John Cheever

The image of the bank robber I had in mind was more in the European tradition where you'd rob banks and give…

— Tony Shafrazi

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all…

— Benjamin Franklin

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the…

— Stephen King

You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use…

— Anita Roddick

Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages…

— John Owen

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

— Seneca the Younger

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

— Pope Francis

A poor tiling job is usually the result of being in a rush.

— Bryan Baeumler

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

— Heber J. Grant

As players we're held accountable for poor performance, I think the same should be said for journalists.

— C. J. McCollum

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

— Herman Melville

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

— Fausto Cercignani

Do not insult yourself by calling yourself poor. He cannot be poor whose limbs are intact.

— Mak_786

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

— Randy Gage

“Words are too poor and too scant to express the inmost feeling in the heart of man.”

— Khalil Gibran

A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.

— Martin McGuinness

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

— Mamata Banerjee

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

— Laurence J. Peter

“When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana