Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

I hate the smell of success, because most of the time it smells like sweat. Maybe that’s why I’m poor, because every pore on my body is dry.

He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting...

E po, mirupafshim! Po me mbyt trishtimi, nga merzia. Seç kam nje brenge ne shpirt, Makar Aleksejeviç. As vete s’e di arsyen. E tille dite paska qene. Mirupafshim!

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

I hadn’t found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me … and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war...

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

I said I didn’t think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes – better than the...

A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can’t innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western brands. They want to believe...

When people get at each other’s throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

When golf used to be a rich man’s sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

A Very Short Poem for Poor LoversYou’ve got nothing,I’ve got nothing,And it’s not a good thing.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

If love was Jesus’s greatest commandment, why dont more christians do so? This is the greatest sin, if Jesus in fact gave us one and only commandment and we dont follow! GIVE YOUR LIFE FOR...

My poor, problematic feet don’t let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.

Being rich is not how much is stacked in your bank account but how much you can stack in the hands of men…how much you can give.

For most Americans, money and calories are always on their minds, although they burn too much of one, and not enough of the other.

I felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

We are not poor. We just don’t have any money!

In my experience, poor people are the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable...

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ’s righteousness, and enriched in his God.

There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

It’s never better to make somebody poorer, even if they’re rich.

Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn’t promised.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don’t blame poor people for being poor.

You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.

I’ve personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I’ve tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I’ve led a blessed...

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.

I arch my eyebrows like an archer—Robin Hood. My facial expressions can feed the poor.

In Africa, you know, if you’re poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn’t make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people…that doesn’t...

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure,sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the horrorsof the pastand the voidsof new stupidity.One could drownwaiting...

Why, Tom – us people will go on livin’ when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we’re the people that live. They ain’t gonna wipe us out. Why, we’re the people – we go...

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that...

The best way to become poor is to give nothing.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they’re arguing about their treats—their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they’re fighting for their lives. Politics will always mean more...

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let’s remember that, despite being a poor country, India’s democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Poor people are the salt of the earth. They should be sprinkled on icy roads, along with pretzels.

It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice way of having a bed, but we would all be glad of the wooden...

Lere pastaj qe ka dhe jo pak pasunare qe s’i pelqen te degjojne ankimet me ze te larte te varfanjakeve. Se, sigurisht, i shqetesojne, i bezdisin me ankesat pa fund. Po, moj shpirt, varferia kurdohere...

Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God’s name.