Frugality Quotes
64 quotes by 44 authors
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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…
— Jeff Bezos
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
— Edmund Burke
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so…
— Albert Camus
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,…
— Laozi
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Frugality includes all the other virtues.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
— John Ray
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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…
— Benjamin Franklin
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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…
— George Mason
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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…
— Horace Mann
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you…
— Seneca the Younger
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Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
— Frederic Bastiat
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By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
— Agesilaus II
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[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to…
— Samuel Adams
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[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love.
— Ramit Sethi
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Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .
— Benjamin Franklin
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Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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…
— William Penn
Who Wrote These Frugality Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 64 Frugality Quotes, led by these top contributors: