Poor Quotes - Page 28

• Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Children, Father

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• The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, India, Widows

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• He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Serving God, Inviting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Rupees, Spinning

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• It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Weather, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, People, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Influence, Hinduism, Adverse

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• Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Class, Moral

  Shapurji Saklatvala, Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Is India Different?: The Class Struggle in India : Correspondence on the Indian Labour Movement and Modern Conditions”

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• There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Envy, World, Conflict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.61, Rajpal & Sons

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• The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wealth, Rich, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.121, A&C Black

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• The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Men, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.18, Rajpal & Sons

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• Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Good Man, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Discovery, Views, Satan

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works”

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• If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wisdom, Fun, Book

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1965). “Talks by Krishnsmurti in India, 1965: Madras, Bombay, New Delhi [and] Varanasi: authentic report”

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• One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road, and when they beg for help, if you give it to them, you end up succeeding. If you don't give it to them, you end up being turned into a frog or something. It's something that's been around for thousands of years, a concept that's been around for thousands of years.

  George Lucas

  Years, Giving, Frogs

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

  Adrienne Rich

  Country, Believe, Government

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.

  Billy Joel

  Teacher, Crazy, School

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Funny, Husband, Humor

  Quoted in William Hayter, Spooner: A Biography (1977)

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• Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.

  Kevin Rooney

  Funny, Mean, People

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• Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Golf

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• Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bad Day, Pride, Hands

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, People, Challenges

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!

  Muhammad Yunus

  Track, Easy, Campus

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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• God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Art, Play

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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