Quotes with poor-quality

Quotes 261 till 280 of 628.

  • Edmund Spenser It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
    Edmund Spenser
    English poet (1552 - 1599)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ben Stein It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Flannery O'Connor It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Cooney It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Scott O'Grady It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion - these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.
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  • George Wald It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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  • Bill Vaughan It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Lewis Carroll It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bono It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Ray Kroc Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bryant Gumbel Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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