Beggar Quotes

235 Beggar quotes by 166 unique authors

With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the… — Fidel Castro
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it… — Ellen Key
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar,… — Philip Neri
Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty. — Swami Vivekananda
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy! — Brennan Manning
I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar. — Robert Green Ingersoll
"Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us… — Pope Francis
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice. — Saint John Chrysostom
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. — Dietrich von Hildebrand
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly… — Peter Mullan
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of… — R. Scott Bakker
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth. — Zelda Fitzgerald
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage. — William Gurnall
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of… — William Shakespeare
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. — Homer
She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went… — E. M. Forster
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. — Friedrich Schiller
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no… — Bernard Baruch
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who… — James Russell Lowell
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. — Oscar Wilde
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. — Rajneesh
Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering… — Rajneesh

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