Poor Quotes

You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer. No! Something good can come out from you no matter who you are, what you have done and where you have been to!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

God wants to use you as a divine show room, where the poor, the wearied and the depressed will find comfort and recreation! You got to be kind. It's a sign that you have conquered greed!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I could stand in the middle of Front Street shrieking like a banshee and nobody would notice me. You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. So stand behind me and think quiet thoughts.

~ C.m. Hayden

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dance and connection strengthen every bodily system, while isolation, rage and sadness poison them with cortisol.

~ Steven Heighton

As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve.

~ Felix Wantang

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor, He lived among them.

~ Dillon Burroughs

Venice was a contrast from Los Angeles itself, where you might see a woman with $15,000 tits, a face frozen in place by Botox, wobbling with her $4,000 Gucci bag right past a child with a sunken belly and exposed ribs encaging a heart too weak to scream.

~ Jackie Haze

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

~ Ignatius Of Loyola

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

~ Tony Campolo

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the humanity in which he suffers, the creation in which he shines. He looks at humanity so much that he sees the soul, he looks at creation so much that he sees God. He dreams, he feels that he is great; he dreams some more, and he feels that he is tender. From the egotism of the suffering man, he passes to the compassion of the contemplating man. A wonderful feeling springs up within him, forgetfulness of self, and pity for all. In thinking of the countless enjoyments nature offers, gives, and gives lavishly to open souls and refuses to closed souls, he, a millionaire of intelligence, comes to grieve for the millionaires of money. All hatred leaves his heart as all light enters his mind. And is he unhappy? No. The poverty of a young man is never miserable.

~ Victor Hugo

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

~ Gary Smith

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy, let us be known for it as well.

~ Dillon Burroughs

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.

~ Piero Gheddo

The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.

~ Basil The Great

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

~ A.c. Gaughen

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

~ Jeffrey D. Sachs

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Habits are the determinant of who will be rich or be poor.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoy’s famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it takes to write it. But as with most generalizations, a truth lies behind it. Ultimately, what binds the rich together is that they have more money, lots more. For one reason or another, the poor don’t have enough of it. But poverty doesn’t bind the poor together as much as wealth and the need to protect it bind the rich. If it did, we would hear the rattle of tumbrels in the streets. One hears mutterings, but the chains have not yet been shed.

~ William Mcpherson

But one thing was quite clear…” he wrote. “[B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.” Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.

~ Erik Larson

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

~ Linsey Mcgoey

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

~ Felix Wantang

Regular people are used to rudeness; we get it all the time, we're inured to it. The wealthy aren't; it hurts their feelings, or whatever they have in there.

~ Michael Cleverly

It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?It's meant to be lavender.No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

~ David Nicholls

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.

~ William Shakespeare

That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations? Marshall smirked. Woe is me.

~ Sophie Avett

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

~ Kasie West

Poor people do not go on holiday, they go home.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

~ M.b. Dallocchio

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world, but we haven’t found wealth on the road.

~ M.f. Moonzajer