Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

The irony of life emerges when two categories of men give advices regarding contempt for wordly goods. One, the rich, who do not know at first hand, what poverty is and another, the poor, who...

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

Standing around making ten dollars an hour—that’s what they pay me the big bucks for.

If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff...

Even today we don’t pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder,...

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

I am very poor – for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone.Can’t be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone

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...

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and...

The prosperity of humanity is in utter disparity with its clarity largely seen in wider poverty.

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

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

Learning about Poverty’. ‘Two young American Jesuits showed up at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome. Father Arrupe asked what assignment had brought them there. They explained that they were on their way to India to...

Poor Chad. Not the country, but the guy. Oh, and the country’s poor too. I feel so bad for Chad. I also feel so bad for Chad.

I’m a poor worker. The quality of work I do is excellent, but I make no money.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.

{McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank}His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his...

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

It’s easy to be humble when your life’s prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life’s so poor.

outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities” but we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the...

The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.

There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

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.