Poor Quotes Quotes

“Most people didn’t see the beauty behind the everyday, didn’t enjoy the simple pleasures in life, didn’t stop and smell the roses … and just because these phrases were considered platitudes didn’t make them any less true. For you could belittle truth, lambaste it, deny its existence, but truth would always still be there, as unconcerned as the inexorably flowing Mississippi.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“If you want to know a person’s true character, observe how he treats those who don’t matter.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Molly wondered this: Could the size of man’s soul be small? She marveled that she would ask herself this question, for the obvious answer was yes. After all, if John’s was infinitely large, then his polar opposite must also surely exist. Her ex-husband’s soul was very small indeed. He was forever spinning his wheels to enlarge his soul, to fill its emptiness, with things. The luxury car, the large house, the high-paying but unimaginative job, the respect of people he didn’t even like. Like so many men, he needed a boy’s toy box of things to feel whole. John was the opposite. He didn’t need anything to feel whole besides a hammock, a beer, and her.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Declare war on poverty, not the poor.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is no timetable when you are poor. Even when you are hungry, you have to wait until you have something to eat.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“How to Become Rich?
Work For The Rich, They Will Keep You Poor;
Work For The Poor, They Will Make You Rich.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If you do not mingle with the right people, your status will never rise. If you mingle with cheap people, you will appear cheap, and if you mingle with rich people, you will appear rich even if you are poor.”
― Genereux Philip

“I don't judge poverty by wealth. The poor are those who cannot afford to pay attention in life.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I don't want to romanticize poverty. I just mean that there was, for me, a kind of grace and joy in it that I can't quite describe. I'd have loved to give us all enough to live better, but... this was pretty good regardless.”
― Mike Hawthorne, Happiness Will Follow

“The intelligent run from poverty, the enlightened flee from greed.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If a citizen is a hunger, the poor are a nation”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Poverty has created a new planet within this planet: A Planet of Misery that all humanity should be ashamed of!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Poverty is no religion in the world. They need support for growth only.”
― Sujit Kumar Mishra

“In a socialist society, people are always motivated to achieve unity and the truest form of freedom—Organising themselves and coming to help those who are in need. You will find organisations such as social welfare, that take great care and give support to the poor, unemployed, old people, widows, etc.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“Don't be so poor to the point that you can't afford to pay attention.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The poor man has sold his freedom of expression to the state.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Resistance To Intolerance

“You are not poor only in the lack of possessions, but also in your way of reasoning.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Resistance To Intolerance

“Being rich is associated with being intelligent in our society. Thus, all the billionaires and millionaires make sense every time they talk.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Since we are blessed with the richest God and not the poorest, this is why we must keep crying out for more of Him.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If anything was really possible or easy to achieve, then we would all end up as employers rather than employees. Kings and not subjects. Rich and not poor.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“There is nothing to love in a poor man and nothing to hate in a rich man. Simply, because no one wants to become poor in life. We all seek a moderate lifestyle.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The saying that the poor are happy, the rich are unhappy seems to have been invented by the rich to persuade the poor to stay poor!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Socrates: " All I know is that I know nothing". Paraphrase: All I know is that I have nothing and others don't even have it.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“It is better to be rich and exclaim, what's the point of all these things, than to be poorer and say, what's the point of being rich anyway.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I don't believe the poor are lazy, it's just that sometimes people are tied down by fate and the unawareness to utilize the power of prayer.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“Wealth is like water. To learn to swim, you must first dive in; this is the thin line that separates the rich from the poor. Risk taking.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The best way to help the poor is to help them get rich.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Wealthless life is a respectless life.”
― Bharani Kumar Buyakar, Once Again Beautiful And Pure: A Tale of Strength and Redemption

“The massive effort of the poor goes unnoticed in our society, that's labour, while the slightest effort of the rich is quickly noticed, and that's called work.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“A politician who opposes the modification of a constitution is still mentally premature in the political field.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo