Quotes About Stinginess

#1. A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.

John L. Parker Jr.

#2. All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.

Harper Lee

#3. I am a daughter, a son of God's, part of God's royal family. In the perspective of eternity, many things of this world are petty, beneath me: Vulgarity, stinginess, greed, grudges.

Ken Untener

#4. But there's still this combination of governmental ineptitude, shortsightedness, stinginess, corruption, and neglect that affected the Continentals before, during, and after Valley Forge that twenty-first-century Americans are not entirely unfamiliar with. While

Sarah Vowell

#5. Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be truthful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

Muhammad

#7. Excellence in our work is actually a form of generosity and love, and poor quality is a form of stinginess and selfishness.

Matt Perman

#8. ...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality

David McCullough

#9. Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much takes place within me each day that by comparison I find a paucity, a stinginess, a silence in people which drives me to excess.

Anais Nin

#10. There is an inequitable distribution of both goods and opportunities in this world. Therefore, if you have been assigned the goods of this world by God and you don't share them with others, it isn't just stinginess, it is injustice.

Timothy Keller

#11. Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

Yasmin Mogahed

#12. Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth ...

Vincent De Paul

#13. Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.

Gary Zukav

#14. Stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

Laura Lippman

#15. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

Eugene H. Peterson

#16. walking is for poor people.

Ransom Riggs

#17. I walked, floated, lighter - forty miles, my biggest day yet. I'd lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self - forgiveness for my innocence.

Aspen Matis

#18. Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

Joseph Fink

#19. The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Ronald Reagan

#20. Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Elbert Hubbard

#21. Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

Matt Perman

#22. Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetime
when they can't take their riches
to the grave.

- Gwallawg is Other

Taliesin

#23. A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

James Patterson

#24. Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

Liane Moriarty

#25. This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.

Frank Iero

#26. The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

Arthur C. Clarke

#27. Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

Suzy Kassem

#28. Tumours can come out of nowhere.

James Nesbitt

#29. What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.

Marlon James

#30. My grandmother always said if you add sugar to booze then it's medicine not liquor.

Simon Clark

#31. It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

Joe Gibbs