Anzia Yezierska Quotes

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to charity?

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Give [charity] without hope or expectation of any return. To give otherwise, indeed, would scarcely be to give at all, but rather a loan.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I love to give money away. I don't know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.