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Quotes about poverty and ambition

1. Success comes from diligence and frugality, failure comes from luxury.

2. Frugality itself is a great source of wealth. —— Seneca

3. A person who pursues a high-level material life by any means necessary must have low-level thoughts and morals. —— Qianhu

4. Wealth is limited and expenses are unlimited, so you should live within your means. ——Yan Zhitui

5. Always think of the time as the time of the time, and do not mistake the time of the time for the time of the time. ——"Zeng Tang Xian Wen"

6. The son of a successful family, excrement is like treasure; the son of a prodigal family, money is like grass. Now there is nothing but extravagance, but in the future the sun and moon will be empty.

7. Finished objects must not be damaged.

8. If you are not a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are.

9. Those who are extravagant and lazy are poor, while those who are capable and thrifty are rich. ——Han Feizi's "Han Feizi Exhibits Learning"

10. Extravagant generals will be killed by their own strength. ——Pre-Qin "Zuo Zhuan Xianggong 29th Year"

11. Extravagance leads to more desires. A gentleman's excessive desire for wealth and honor will lead to disaster in vain. ——Sima Guang's "Teaching Thrift to Show Comfort"

12. It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality.

13. If you don’t save in winter, you will have to worry about spring; if you don’t work in summer, you will have no harvest in autumn. ——(Xibo people) Proverbs

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

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

16. After all the luxury and success, there will be both happiness and trouble. ——Wang Anshi

17. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time. ——Bacon

18. Gold has no seeds, it comes from thrifty families.

19. Those who know how to eat will eat a thousand meals, and those who can’t eat will eat one meal.

20. The family has ten thousand kilo of grain, but if they can’t grow it and kill the cows to eat the meat, it is better to keep it for milking.

21. Frugality is the greatest virtue; extravagance is the greatest evil. ——"Zuo Zhuan? The Twenty-Fourth Year of Duke Zhuang"

22. It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality.

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

24. Don’t think about danger in times of peace, abstain from extravagance and be frugal; cut down the roots in order to achieve luxuriant growth, block the source in order to achieve long-lasting growth. ——Wei Zheng

25. Frugality itself is a property. ——Britain

26. Frugality is a feast that you can never stop eating in your life. ——Emerson

27. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ——Greece

28. Frugality is the secret to wealth. ——UK