Quotations from famous people who cultivate virtue through frugality

1. Luxury always follows fornication, and fornication always follows luxury. ——Montesquieu

2. Among various cost-saving measures, reducing personnel is the most important. ——Wang Yongqing

3. Stay calm to cultivate your character, and be frugal to cultivate your virtue. ——Zhuge Liang

4. All savings are, in the final analysis, time savings. ——Marx

5. Frugality is an endless feast in your life. ——Emerson

6. A porridge and a meal, when thinking about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, constant thinking about material difficulties. ——Zhu Bailu

7. Frugality is an endless feast in your life. ——Emerson

8. The white-headed old mother covers the door and cries, and rolls up the sleeves of her shirt. ——Han Yu

9. Things in the world are often succeeded by diligence and frugality but failed by extravagance. ——Lu You

10. Don’t think about living in peace and be prepared for danger, abstain from extravagance and be frugal; this is also the same as cutting down the roots in order to seek luxuriant trees, blocking the source in order to have a long flow. ——Wei Zheng

11. A gentleman uses frugality to overcome difficulties, but cannot use glory and wealth. ——Pre-Qin

12. Luxury is the starting point of national weakness. ——Cuba

13. Small things don’t mean money is empty. ——Tomor

14. Once society has a technical need, this need will push science forward more than ten universities. ——Engels

15. Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success was caused by diligence and frugality, and failure was caused by extravagance. ——Li Shangyin

16. Frugality is the secret to getting rich. ——UK

17. How much you save is how much you get. ——Denmark

18. Extravagance leads to more desires. A gentleman who is too lustful will seek wealth and honor, which will lead to disaster in vain. ——Sima Guang

19. Those who pursue high-level material life at all costs must have low-level thoughts and morals. —— Qianhu

20. Don’t neglect saving, as a little can add up to tens of millions. ——Fan Jiting agrees

21. The journey of a husband and gentleman is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate one’s virtue through thrift. If it is not indifferent, it will not clear its aspirations, and if it is not tranquil, it will not be far-reaching. ——Zhuge Liang

22. Frugality itself is a property. ——Britain

23. If you strengthen your foundation and use it sparingly, you will never be poor. ——Xun Kuang

24. Luxury and debauchery are just a phenomenon of social corruption, not the cause. ——Lu Xun

25. Sailing a boat depends on steering, and managing a house depends on frugality. ——Proverb

26. Extravagance leads to more desires. A gentleman's excessive desire for wealth and honor will lead to disaster in vain. ——Sima Guang

27. A gentleman is concerned about morality but not poverty. ——Confucius

28. Don’t worry about poverty and lowliness, and don’t dwell on wealth. ——Tao Yuanming

29. The inevitable consequence of luxury - the disintegration of etiquette - in turn causes the corruption of taste. ——Rousseau

30. The inevitable consequence of luxury is the disintegration of etiquette, which in turn causes the corruption of taste. ——Britain

31. Save rice today, save oil tomorrow, and buy a big ox next year. ——Proverb

32. Save a bite a day, save a bucket a year. ——Proverb

33. Don’t pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls with a bucket. ——Kazakh

34. Being extravagant means taking things for granted and humiliating one's ambition; being frugal means asking nothing from others and having nothing to be ashamed of oneself, which can nourish one's spirit. ——Luo Dajing

35. To imprison the country and remove its useless expenses is enough to double the cost. ——Pre-Qin

36. Those who scrimp on food and clothing during normal times will easily survive when they are poor; whoever is luxurious and extravagant when they are rich will die of hunger and cold when they are poor.

——Sadie