28 Great Quotes About Frugality

Are you tired of excessive spending and accumulating unnecessary possessions? Are you ready to make a change? Being frugal doesn't mean cheap. It means being wise in your expenditure and reducing waste. The key to frugality is discipline and self-restraint. You can learn new ways to cut spending and increase your savings. Being frugal allows you to appreciate the simple things in life. Frugality will empower you to devote resources in causes that are worthwhile and meaningful to you. Here's a list of encouraging quotes to help you achieve a frugal lifestyle.

"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."
--Benjamin Franklin

"Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character."
--S.W. Straus

"A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need."
--Sidney Carroll

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

"He who does not economize will have to agonize."
--Confucius

"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
--John D. Rockefeller

"Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world."
--Lao Tzu

"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality"
--John Tyler

"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
--Samuel Johnson

"Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse."
--Seneca

"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything."
--Benjamin Franklin

"By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest."
--Agesilaus

"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 virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles"
--Patrick Henry

"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 fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness."
--Oliver Goldsmith

"Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today."
--Francis H. Sisson

"Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous."
--Lord Rosebery

"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."
--Edmund Burke

"The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice."
--M.W. Harrison

"A man often pays dear for a small frugality"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."
--Benjamin Franklin

"We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end."
--Owen Young

"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."
--Andrew Johnson

"Be thrifty, but not covetous."
--George Herbert

"Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power."
--Orison Swett Marden

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"
--Cicero

"Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left."
--John Ray

"Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty"
--Samuel Johnson

"The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality."
--Benjamin Franklin

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