Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

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• It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Always
  • Being
  • Poor

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Child
  • Poor

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Down
  • Poor

• I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poor
  • Concerned
  • Oppression

• Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Poverty
  • Poor
  • Choose

• It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Black
  • You
  • Poor

• They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Poor
  • Wars

• Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Long
  • Morning
  • Sad

• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • May

• The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Time
  • Sad

• Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Communication
  • Poor

• You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hate
  • Loved
  • Poor

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Peace
  • Rich

• ...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Respect
  • Enough
  • Poor

• Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Fear
  • inspirational
  • Not Afraid

• You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Freedom
  • Poor
  • Wealthy

• An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Country
  • Fighting

• I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Moral

• My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Entertaining

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Poor
  • Fashionable