The famous sayings about diligence and frugality are:
1. Success comes from diligence and frugality, failure comes from luxury.
2. Frugality itself is a great source of wealth. - Seneca.
3. People who pursue high-level material life at all costs must have low-level thoughts and morals. ——The potential husband.
4. With limited funds and unlimited expenses, you should live within your means. ——Yan Zhitui.
5. Always think of sometimes as no time, never think of no time as sometimes. ——"Zeng Tangxianwen".
6. A married man’s excrement is like treasure; a prodigal son’s 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 Xian Xue".
10. Luxury will be killed by its 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 "Exercise thrift and show kindness".
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. ——(Xibe ethnic group) proverb.
14. The journey of a gentleman is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate virtue through frugality. 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.
15. Sailing a boat depends on steering, and managing a house depends on thrift. --proverb.
16. After the success of luxury, there will be both happiness and peace. ——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 Zhuang Gong".
22. It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality.