Top 55 Poor Man's Dream Quotes
#1. America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.
Ronald Reagan
#2. Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
Thomas Carlyle
#3. What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.
James Wolcott
#4. I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.
Dave Bautista
#5. You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
George Santayana
#6. Mumbai is a city of stark contrasts - providing opportunities to millionaires to pursue their riches and millions of poor to pursue livelihood. For many, Mumbai is a city where their dreams begin; for many others, it marks and end of a dream.
Duvvuri Subbarao
#7. Poor wretches that depend
On greatness' favor, dream as I have done;
Wake, and find nothing.
William Shakespeare
#8. Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.
Michel Ocelot
#9. Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.
Vikas Swarup
#10. For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.
Sylvia Porter
#11. When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country.
- Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream
Cornel West
#12. I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
Viktor Yanukovych
#13. I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
Stephen Chow
#14. She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to
Kristin Hannah
#15. A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
Henry Ford
#16. Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. I had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry
Megan Boyle
#20. I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character ... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#21. The centuries will burn rich loads
With which we groaned,
Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
While songs are crooned:
But they will not dream of us poor lads,
Left in the ground.
Wilfred Owen
#22. The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#23. I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality.
Diane Guerrero
#24. My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe
Blaise Cendrars
#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
#26. The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.
Alexandre Dumas
#27. Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Ronald Wright
#29. I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.
Hugo Chavez
#30. When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.
Cesar Millan
#31. Yeah i thought about making the character of JD gay ... But then i thought, but what about all the poor girls dreams you'll be crushing
Zach Braff
#32. See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
Aravind Adiga
#33. And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.
Charles Dickens
#34. I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.
Gregory Meeks
#35. Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.
Amber Rose
#36. You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.
Randy Gage
#37. Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. But a fix, some magic cure to his "poor" status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams.
M.L. Sanford
#39. You will always have obstacles in life, no matter how poor or rich you are. e obstacles, problems, and difficulties are simply of a different nature. That's why it's way better if you attempt your dream.
Ben Tolosa
#40. What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!
Thomas Brooks
#41. Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple door.
Emily Dickinson
#42. Dare To Dream Big, Think Big, Live Big And Believe Big In Your Life. Now Focus On That Spectacular Sunset ... Because Destiny Is Calling You!
Timothy Pina
#43. For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound ... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.
Richard Wagner
#44. It was very like a dream. Like all dreamers, however, I could not let my dream alone. We poor humans are so anxious not to miss anything.
Agatha Christie
#45. In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams ... There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.
Margaret Maron
#46. That's what it's like being poor - choices are something you sit around and dream about having, some day after you strike it rich.
David Wong
#47. You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#48. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.
Robert Kiyosaki
#50. The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
Harry Kemp
#51. The rich man dines, while the poor man pines,
And eats his heart away;
'They teach us lies,' he sternly cries,
'Would BROTHERS do as they?'
The Dream.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#52. I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.
Hugo Chavez
#53. If one of your dream dies, dare to dream another. You stop living when you dream no more!
Timothy Pina
#54. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholem Aleichem
#55. In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.
Winnie Byanyima
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