Begets Quote by Confucius Download Open image “Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.” — Confucius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begets Mean Meanness Self Self will Thrift Waste
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly… — Owen D. Young Copy Share Image
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely any man alive who… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those… — Peter George Peterson Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature… — Lisa Simeone Copy Share Image
Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children. — Enoch Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
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