Poor Quotes

5043 Poor quotes by 2780 unique authors

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy
The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position… — Confucius
Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He… — Dwight L. Moody
Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality. — C.S. Lewis
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card. — Mark Twain
When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man,… — Diogenes
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the… — George Eliot
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor… — Wilbur Smith
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and… — Charles Loring Brace
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. — Nathaniel Branden
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider. — Anna Lindh
Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks… — Charles Evers
But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether… — Saadat Hasan Manto
Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds! — William Kamkwamba
Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets — J. R. D. Tata
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the… — Jamsetji Tata
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once. — Beth Ditto
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. — Derek Jarman
Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me. — Watchman Nee
Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one. — Chris Kyle
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so… — Laura Hillenbrand
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States. — Porfirio Diaz
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests… — Stephen Johnson Field
You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only… — Kofi Annan
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. — Henry Walter Bates

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