Character Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

— John Adams

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…

— Benjamin Franklin

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,…

— Toni Cade Bambara

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and…

— Dorothea Dix

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

— Justinian I

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

— Seneca the Younger

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ...…

— Isabella Beeton

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him…

— Lucretius

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

— Swami Vivekananda

“If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at…

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to…

— Zicheng Hong