Quotes on Frugality

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.

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

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.

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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

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

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

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.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

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

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.