Poor Quotes - Page 6

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

A person with a poor mind set is always afraid to take risk.

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

Whoever desires is always poor.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.

I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeless folks. Then, after I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn't ever gon' have no kind a' future. But I found out everybody's different - the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us. The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can lead to poor decisions and invites people to take advantage of you. Instead, be a rational optimist who takes the good with the bad, in hopes of the good ultimately outweighing the bad, and with the understanding that being pessimistic about everything accomplishes nothing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best - the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.