Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
John Wooden

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
Groucho Marx

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields