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Frugalness Quotes

  • Mar 10, 2022
  • 2 min read

Updated: Mar 17, 2022

He who will not economise will have to agonise.

Confucius


Frugality is a handsome income.

Erasmus


Frugality makes a poor man rich.

Seneca


Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Justinian I


Acquire riches by industry and frugality.

Benjamin Franklin


Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Cicero


Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

John Adams


How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

Nikos Kazantzakis


By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Agesilaus II


The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Cicero


Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

John Ray


Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Benjamin Franklin


It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius


Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Samuel Johnson


Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Samuel Johnson


Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Benjamin Franklin


I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

Einstein


A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Dorothea Dix


Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

Elise M Boulding


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


Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

Lucretius


Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Benjamin Franklin

2025

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