Quotes on Thrift

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

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

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

The instances that second marriage move _x000D_ _x000D_ Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.