Frugality Quotes

Frugality Quote of the day

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Frugality is a handsome income.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.