1. Saving is a big harvest.

2. One and a half stars equals two cents.

3. If one person is thrifty, the whole family will be rich. ——Tan Qiao

4. There is storage every year, and people are not depleted in famine years.

5. Store a spoonful of rice a day, and a stone of grain for a thousand days.

6. Show off when you have money, and go hungry when you have no money.

7. To sail a boat depends on steering, and to manage a house depends on frugality.

8. Classic quotes about diligence and frugality

9. Thrift is a big harvest. ——Proverb

10. Frugality is the secret to wealth. ——Britain

11. Frugality will hurt things, and extravagance will hurt goods. ——Guan Zhong

12. Frugality leads to prosperity, while immorality leads to ruin. ——Mozi

13. Only frugality can help integrity, but forgiveness can achieve virtue.

14. When there is a shortage, save it to save it; when there is a shortage, save it to prepare for it.

15. Frugality itself is a property. ——Britain

16. Gold and jade are not treasures, but frugality is. ——Zhu Yuanzhang

17. One or two coals, one piece of charcoal, a little can make a lot of cooked rice.

18. Diligence, frugality and frugality will make the whole family happier.

19. Building a family is like picking up dirt with a needle, and losing a family is like surfing the sand.

20. Diligence without thrift is like having a needle but no thread.

21. Extravagance and frugality must be regarded as the abundance of the world. ——Pre-Qin

22. If you don’t know how to save small money, you will spend big money indiscriminately. ——Britain

23. Being lazy and extravagant will make you poor, and being thrifty and powerful will make you rich. ——Guan Zhong

24. You are a proletarian, and diligence and thrift are my sect. ——Chen Yi

25. If you plan carefully for half a year, you will not suffer in bad years.

26. To sail a boat depends on steering, and to manage a house depends on thrift. ——Proverb

27. Don’t pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls with a bucket.

28. Those who are extravagant and lazy will be poor, while those who are capable and thrifty will be rich. ——Han Fei

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

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

31. To save luxury is to be frugal, and to save poverty is to be honest. ——Fan Ye

32. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

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

34. Frugality is the greatest virtue; extravagance is the greatest evil. ——Zuo Qiuming

35. A gentleman is concerned about the road but not about poverty. ——Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius Wei Linggong"

36. Frugality is a feast that you can never finish in your life. ——Emerson

37. Save rice today, oil tomorrow, and buy a big ox next year.

38. Things in the world often succeed due to diligence and frugality but fail due to extravagance. ——Lu You

39. Save and save, accumulate a little and make a lot, one drop or two, merge into a river.

40. With limited funds and unlimited expenses, you should live within your means. ——Yan Zhitui

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

42. 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

43. Those who are extravagant are in ruins, while those who are frugal are safe. One evil and one good are in front of you. ——Bai Juyi

44. After the success of luxury, there will be both happiness and peace. ——Wang Anshi

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

46. Luxury is like wine, which both excites and debilitates people. ——Karl

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

48. If you manage your body with frugality, you will have no worries; if you manage your family with frugality, you will have no worries. ——Xu Mingkui

49. Thrifty burial is the beauty of the ancients; extravagant burial is the bad reputation of the ancients. ——Ouyang Xiu

50. A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a wisp, constant thought of material difficulties.

51. If you save money, the country will have more to use, and the people will have something to hide. ——Hai Rui

52. Frugality and simplicity are human virtues; luxury and magnificence are human vices. ——Xue Xuan

53. At noon on the day of hoeing, sweat dripped from the soil. Who knows that every meal on the plate is hard work?

54. Truth is the most valuable of all our possessions, so let us save it.

55. If you are not thrifty, you will never be able to run your family; if your family is not thrifty, you will be exhausted. ——He Changling

56. Those who are extravagant are not rich enough, and those who are frugal are more than poor; those who are extravagant are often poor in heart, and those who are frugal are often rich in heart. ——Shen Dao

57. Don’t think about living in times of peace and be prepared for danger, abstain from extravagance and be frugal; cut down the roots in order to seek luxuriant trees, block the source in order to have a long flow. ——Wei Zheng

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

59. The journey of 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 tranquil, it will not be far-reaching. ——Zhuge Liang

60. 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

61. Whoever scrimps on food and clothing on weekdays will easily get through difficulties when he is poor; whoever is luxurious and extravagant when he is rich will die of hunger and cold when he is poor. ——Sadie

62. Luxury will destroy people's spiritual purity, because unfortunately, the more you get, the more greedy you become, and you always feel that you cannot satisfy yourself. ——Angel

63. I regard frugality as my treasure. The so-called frugality does not stop at the use of money. Being frugal in food and drink nourishes the spleen and stomach. Being frugal in appetites concentrates the spirit. Being frugal in speech nourishes the breath. It will eliminate worries. If you save a share of everything, you will receive a share of the benefits. ——Li Qingyuan