Top 89 Quotes About Frugality
#1. Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
Justinian I
#3. Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology ('Just do it!') to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It
Yuval Noah Harari
#4. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvement of my talents in literature.
David Hume
#5. Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson
#6. [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.
Samuel Adams
#7. Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably ...
Benjamin Franklin
#9. Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
John Tyler
#10. The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.
Irving Kahn
#11. In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#12. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.
Benjamin Franklin
#16. My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
Roz Chast
#17. Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Horace
#18. But even if they did have that kind of money rattling around in their pockets, actually spending it would offend their native frugality.
Neal Stephenson
#19. Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.
Vicki Robin
#20. With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
Seneca The Younger
#21. 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.
Moliere
#22. What all this adds up to is the view that nature is there as a resource to be used by man for his self-interest and profit. But, frugality being a virtue, the resource should be "conserved" as much as possible.
George Lakoff
#24. Moved by deep love, a man is courageous.
And with frugality, a man becomes generous,
And he who does not desire to be ahead of the
world becomes the leader of the world.
Lao-Tzu
#25. 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.
Andrew Johnson
#26. 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.
Honore De Balzac
#27. Frugal is an old-fashioned, mostly unused word and frugality is is an old-fashioned mostly unused virtue that has been waiting for hard times to come back. The Scots have another word for it - canny.
Keith Smith, Hard Times Handbook, 1984
Keith Smith
#28. The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Livy
#29. The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.
Max Weber
#30. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
Benjamin Franklin
#32. Let frugality and industry be our virtues.
John Adams
#33. 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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#34. As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
Oliver Goldsmith
#36. 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.
Albert Camus
#38. 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.
Keith B. McMullin
#39. Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.
Nicholas Sparks
#40. The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
Samuel Johnson
#42. The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.
Billy Graham
#43. If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
Oliver Goldsmith
#44. Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
Frederic Bastiat
#45. Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#46. Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.
John Gokongwei
#47. 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.
Amory Lovins
#48. Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
Confucius
#49. Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
Amy Dacyczyn
#50. After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;
Max Weber
#51. 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.
Jeff Bezos
#52. Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
#53. Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
#54. 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 ...
Benjamin Franklin
#55. Consumerism sees the consumption of ever more products and services as a positive thing. It encourages people to treat themselves, spoil themselves, and even kill themselves slowly by overconsumption. Frugality is a disease to be cured.
Yuval Noah Harari
#56. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
Benjamin Franklin
#57. The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
Benjamin Franklin
#58. I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.
George Mason
#59. Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
Samuel Johnson
#60. Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Elise Boulding
#61. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
John Ray
#62. I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
Edmund Phelps
#63. He counted thirteen virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquillity, chastity, and humility. Soon
Jill Lepore
#64. If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
#65. 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.
Horace Mann
#66. Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke
#67. 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.
George Mason
#68. 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.
Ramit Sethi
#69. To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism
John Lane
#70. But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
Laozi
#73. 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.
Laozi
#74. By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
Agesilaus II
#76. That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
Sam Altman
#77. Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.
Isabella Beeton
#79. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
#80. Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.
Brandon Sanderson
#82. Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
#83. Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
Archibald Primrose
#84. Being frugal doesn't mean slashing your spending or depriving yourself of things that you enjoy. It means knowing the value of a dollar and making every effort to spend it wisely.
Frank Sonnenberg
#85. He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
Samuel Pepys
#86. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens
#87. He who will not economize will have to agonize
Confucius
#88. Should my decease happen in Newcastle I desire that my remains may be laid near the south porch in Saint Andrews churchyard near the remains of my dear wife, and that the least possible expence may be laid out on my interment. Charles Avison
Charles Avison
#89. We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.
Jason Jennings
