Quotes about hard work and frugality
2. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. General idea: It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
3. A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, always think about the difficulty of material resources. The general idea: Even if it is a piece of porridge or a meal, you should remember that it is not easy to come by; even if it is half a piece of silk or half a thread, you should also think of the hard work.
4. Success comes from diligence and frugality, failure comes from luxury.
5. Frugality leads to prosperity, while immorality leads to ruin.
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. The inevitable consequence of luxury is that the disintegration of customs in turn causes the corruption of taste.
8. Stay calm to cultivate your character, and be frugal to cultivate your virtue. ——Zhuge Liang
9. Coins are round, so they roll away easily. ——Toriano
10. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
11. Plan carefully to have food and clothing; eat and drink lavishly, and sell pots in the house.
12. Building a family is like picking up dirt with a needle, and losing a family is like wading through sand. Diligence and frugality will never lead to poverty, and even sitting on a mountain of food will lead to nothing.
13. There is nothing extravagant at the moment, but the sun and the moon will be empty in the future.
14. A gentleman uses frugality to overcome difficulties, but cannot use glory and wealth. ——"Yi Zhuan·Fou"
15. Those who are extravagant and lazy will be poor, while those who are strong and thrifty will be rich. ——Han Fei
16. All savings are, in the final analysis, time savings. ——Marx
17. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
18. Don’t use a bucket to pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls.
19. A married man’s excrement is like treasure; a prodigal son’s money is like grass.
20. How much you save is how much you get.
21. Frugality is the greatest virtue; extravagance is the greatest evil. ——"Zuo Zhuan·The Twenty-Fourth Year of Duke Zhuang"
22. Gold has no seeds and comes from a diligent and thrifty family.
23. Luxury is the destruction of morality.
24. Diligence can make up for weakness, and saving can make up for poverty.
25. If you want to have enough food and clothing, be diligent and thrifty.
26. Luxury is like wine, which both excites and debilitates people. ——Karl
27. Thinking before and after, food and clothing are often not enough. Pay careful attention to your budget.
28. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality
29. Hold hands tightly, and you will have success every year.
30. People’s livelihood depends on diligence, but diligence will lead to failure.
31. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work.
32. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
33. A gentleman’s journey is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility and cultivate one’s virtue through frugality. If it is not indifferent, it will not clear its aspirations, and if it is not tranquil, it will not lead to far. ——Zhuge Liang
34. The family has ten thousand shi of grain, but if the pile is not long enough to kill the cows and eat the meat, it is better to keep it for milking.
35. Save money when there is a shortage, and save when there is a shortage.
36. If the water flows slowly, there will be no worries in case of disaster.
37. Show off when you have money, and go hungry when you have no money.
38. Building a family is like picking up soil with a needle, and losing a family is like wading through sand.
39. The cost of imprisoning a country and removing its useless expenses is enough to double that. ——"Mozi·Jie Yong"