Less Fortunate Quotes

• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

  Booker T. Washington

  Famous Inspirational, Race, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.158, University of Illinois Press

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• Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Vision, World, Care

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• If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

  Melinda Gates

  Positive, Success, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

  Roger Moore

  Responsibility, Helping, Those Less Fortunate

  "Portrait of the artist: Roger Moore, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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

  Paul Newman

  People, Important, Fortunate

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Helping Others, Making A Difference, Charity

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• Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kindness, Order, Justice

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

  Melinda Gates

  Helping, Empowering Women, Inspirational Women

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• I never have felt that people should feel that they are better than others, simply because they just happen to possess a larger share of material items and monetary wealth than others less fortunate. I believe in sharing, assisting, and just lending a helping hand to people.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Hands, People

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• Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Pride, People

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• As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Helping Others, Talent, Recourse

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• What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

  Paul Newman

  Hands, People, Fortunate

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• The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Important, Elements

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• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

  Plutarch

  Happiness, Happy, Speak Less

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• Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Spiritual, Compassion, Years

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• Do nice things for people who may be less fortunate than you.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Nice, Bodybuilding

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• I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.

  Mr. T

  Jesus, Rap, Clothes

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either

  Della Reese

  Mean, Sleep, People

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• Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row and I didn't win because I was the toughest, the roughest or the baddest. I won when I was training for the contest, I told my pastor "They're having a contest and when I win the contest I'm a give you the money so you can buy food and clothes for the less fortunate people in the community." That was what Mr. T was about, that was back in 1979. I didn't have a car then but that's what I'm about.

  Mr. T

  Winning, Men, Years

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

  Darryl Worley

  Philosophy, Stranger, Those Less Fortunate

  Song: Those Less Fortunate Than I, Album: Hard Rain Don't Last, 2000

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• We don't have the right to tell less fortunate disadvantaged people that they can't come to the USA and get what we have. You see, that's all predicated on the fact that what we have is simply luck and it isn't fair that the rest of the world doesn't have it. The rest of the world could have it. Human civilization has been around however many number of years you want to add up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Civilization, Usa, Numbers

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• Always take the time to show compassion for those less fortunate, and there are many. Take the time to help a young child cross the street, or to carry a bag of groceries for an elderly lady. And every now and then, look up into that big, beautiful, blue sky and admit that there are things in this world more wondrous that yourself.

  Jack Lambert

  Beautiful, Children, Compassion

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• Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer of money, we facilitate love and communication with other humans. It offers us a simple system of providing for and loving and nurturing ourselves, and it is one way of expressing generosity and kindness for the less fortunate.

  Stuart Wilde

  Love, Appreciation, Kindness

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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