822 Quotes About Poor

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

Having the least usually forces us to make the most of what we have.

The hatred of money is almost always a defense mechanism.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

Better to use taxes to help the poor than to make the rich richer.

There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.

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

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.