822 Quotes About Poor

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

Christ was of course not the slightest bit envious. His perspective was to take care of the poor not out of hatred for the rich, but out of love for the poor; and though we try to imitate His teachings, due to our corrupt and sinful nature, oftentimes, this obvious fact is still so easily neglected.