Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things… — Ramit Sethi Copy Share Image
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but… — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Even a person with ninety-nine rooms sleeps in only one room. And even in that room, the maximum space he requires is… — Jang Eun-Jin Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The salesman told Anna that it was pointless to try to rip off his customers, because of everything a Sichuanese person must… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism — John Lane Copy Share Image
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius Copy Share Image
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to… — William Penn Copy Share Image
![“[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day…” quote by Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb9/gretchen-rubin-867_character_benjamin-franklin-identified-thirteen-vi_1250862.png)
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