Frugality Quotes

• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Freedom, Mean

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• One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within our income, stay out of debt, and save for a rainy day. We should practice and increase our habits of thrift, industry, economy, and frugality. Members of a well-managed family do not pay interest; they earn it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Rainy Day, Practice, Debt

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Waste, Money Wasted, Industry

  Benjamin Franklin (1834). “The Life & Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.160

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• 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

  Deep Love, Leader, World

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• There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

  James E. Faust

  Wise, Mean, Practice

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• Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

  Amy Dacyczyn

  Creativity, Deprivation

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• Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

  Justinian I

  Mother, Virtue

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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

  George Herbert

  Years, Clothes, Endurance

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.248

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• Frugality is a handsome income.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Income, Handsome

  Desiderius Erasmus (1733). “All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things”, p.475

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• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Being Happy, Simple

  "Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Two, Way

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• 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

  Thinking, Innovation, Way

  "Bezos On Innovation". Interview with Peter Burrows, www.bloomberg.com. April 17, 2008.

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• Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

  John Wesley

  Money, Giving, Methodists

  "The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M". Book edited by John Emory, Volume I, p. 446. Sermon 50: "The Use of Money", 1840.

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• Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Money, Use

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.38

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

  John Tyler

  Inspirational Life, Presidential, Saving

  First annual message to Congress, June 01, 1841.

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• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Simplicity, Contentment

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Would Be, Rich Poor, Frugal

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.20

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• 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

  Leaving, Needs, Benefits

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• How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Bears, Chariots

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• Frugality is misery in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Misery, Disguise, Thrift

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• By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

  Agesilaus II

  Simplicity, Liberty, Golden

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