Poor Quotes
5043 Poor quotes by 2780 unique authors
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In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.
— Leo Houlding
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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity.…
— Joseph Furphy
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No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
— Alistair Begg
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Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.
— Jon Stewart
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I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means…
— Maurice de Vlaminck
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I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer…
— Pope Francis
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
— Ajahn Chah
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We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.
— Shoghi Effendi
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Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
— Rich Mullins
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I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the…
— Mother Teresa
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In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
— Mary Todd Lincoln
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Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
— Democritus
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The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West .…
— Billy Graham
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With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful…
— Sara Groves
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It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick
— Dave Barry
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The rich get richer until the poor get educated.
— Sage Francis
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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.
— LeCrae
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Be close tot he poor, the needy, to touch in their flesh the flesh of Jesus. Be close, please
— Pope Francis
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People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the…
— R C Sproul
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As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference,…
— Mother Teresa
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We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.
— Mother Teresa
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