Top 66 Poor Helping Quotes
#1. Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.
James Cook
#2. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
Will Rogers
#3. Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.
Charles Evers
#4. There is a difference between helping, comforting, feeding, and empowering people. As I've said many times: Simply giving money (or entitlements) to poor people only serves to keep them poor longer.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#5. 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
#6. Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
William Shakespeare
#7. The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
Dennis Kucinich
#8. If you want to help the poor, don't be poor
Ann Wilson
#9. Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.
John G. Miller
#10. When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.
Zicheng Hong
#11. Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can't move.
Auliq Ice
#12. Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
Criss Jami
#13. The underprivileged are byproduct of society's material progress.
Pawan Mishra
#14. The entire life we have has it's real meaning in giving! He who least knows the real value of giving that can leave a distinctive footprint least knows what the essence of life is about
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.
Robert Reich
#16. Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.
Pope Francis
#17. I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
William Congreve
#18. Christians should be well versed in what the Bible has to say about human sexuality and economic issues as well as effective methods of compassion for helping the poor and most vulnerable if we hope to gain a hearing with those living in our urban areas.
Christopher W. Brooks
#19. Maybe we can combine 2 things that everybody loves. Helping out the poor and blow jobs.
Joe Rogan
#20. I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
Arthur Ashe
#21. But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.
Richard M. Nixon
#22. Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
Mark Dayton
#23. That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.
Vincent De Paul
#24. No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
#25. I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
Andrew Young
#29. In fact the Guild, he liked to think, practiced the ultimate democracy. You didn't need intelligence, social position, beauty or charm to hire it. You just needed money which, unlike the other stuff, was available to everyone. Except for the poor, of course, but there was no helping some people.
Terry Pratchett
#30. My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company and lived in Dagenham. I could have told my mother that I wanted to work in pantomime. And she'd have said, "Great. I can help you."
Scott Raab
#31. Truth is ... we all will die someday. None of our days are promised in anyway. But by choosing to live great, helping others along our way ... will help brighten humanity each and everyday!
Timothy Pina
#32. Only by helping yourself first can you help the poor. Only by changing yourself first, can you change their condition. You achieve this by first removing from your mind any thoughts of poverty, for to think of something is to invoke it.
Stephen Richards
#33. Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."
Pema Chodron
#34. Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
#35. What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.
Clay Walker
#36. In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.
Bernard Jensen
#37. Do we ignore the needy
to spite the greedy?
Or share and defend
despite those who pretend?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. If I came to your town and asked any person on the street, "Which church should I go to if I want to get involved in helping the poor or homeless in this community?" would your church be the first one mentioned? Make this identity your goal.
Dillon Burroughs
#39. The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
Maria Montessori
#40. Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
John Grisham
#41. It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
Joe Jamail
#42. The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.
Benjamin Franklin
#43. By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#44. I define myself by helping others. This is what I do.
Those people who want me to abandon my husband are asking me to put myself first and to judge him. The poor man has been judged unfairly by others. Why would I abandon him in his greatest need?
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#45. I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do.
Tim Tebow
#46. Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and international systems.
Brian Fikkert
#47. A joyful heart, keeping a positive mind, helping those in despair ... all leads to the roads building a better you!
Timothy Pina
#49. They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
Wendie Malick
#50. The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.
Louis Guanella
#51. Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.
Jay Parini
#52. There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.
Lenny Bruce
#53. No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.
Chris Pavesic
#54. Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.
K.P. Yohannan
#55. Christians and Muslims can still get along. On issues such as global warming and helping the poor.
Bob Abernethy
#56. A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
Eric Maskin
#57. Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Bill Gates
#59. In the poor and outcast we see Christ's face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.
Pope Francis
#60. After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#61. If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
William E. Simon
#62. The government is committed towards helping the poor and neo- middle class with the success mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. It is in line with government's vision to create a skilled and digital India.
Narendra Modi
#63. When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.
Rose Of Lima
#64. Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
William J. Clinton
#65. Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down,
Pope Francis
#66. I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.
Charles Barkley
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