A gentleman uses frugality to overcome difficulties.

General idea: A gentleman uses the virtue of frugality to avoid danger.

Be diligent in your country and frugal in your family.

The general idea: Be diligent in national affairs and frugal in family life.

Frugality is the greatest virtue; extravagance is the greatest evil.

The general idea: Frugality is the greatest virtue among good deeds; luxury is the greatest evil among evil deeds.

People's livelihood depends on diligence, and diligence will not lead to shortage.

General idea: The livelihood of ordinary people depends on hard work. Only by working hard can there be no shortage of property.

Frugality leads to prosperity, while immorality leads to ruin.

The general idea: Frugality will lead to prosperity, while licentiousness and pleasure will lead to ruin.

It is noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil.

Who knows that every meal on the plate is hard work.

----Li Shen's "Compassion for the Farmers"

The main idea: The farmer is hoeing under the scorching sun at noon, and drops of sweat fall on the soil where the seedlings grow. Who knew that every grain of food on the plate was obtained with such hard work.

------Li Shen

Care and hard work can rejuvenate a country, but leisure can lead to death.

The general idea: Worrying about state affairs can make the country prosperous, while pursuing ease and enjoyment can lead to one's own destruction.

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

The general idea: It is easy to change from frugality to luxury, but it is very difficult to change from luxury to frugality.

If you take it in moderation and use it in moderation, you will always have enough.

General idea: If you ask for things in a planned way and consume in a controlled way, you will always be rich.

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

The main idea: Only frugality can make people honest and honest, and only tolerance can make people develop good moral character.

The motto of the famous contemporary Chinese chemist Hou Debang - Diligence can make up for one's weakness, and diligence and frugality make a career possible.

------Motto of famous people

Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success is due to diligence and frugality, and failure is due to extravagance. ----Li Shangyin's "Ode to History"

------Li Shangyin

Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, some were diligent and frugal, and some were extravagant.

------(Tang Dynasty) Li Shangyin

Diligence and frugality are the basis for running a family; harmony is the basis for managing the family; prudence is the basis for protecting the family; poetry and writing are the basis for starting a business. Origin; loyalty and filial piety, the foundation of family heirloom.

------(Qing Dynasty) Jinying

In ancient times and today, the first and second generations of official families have declined; the thrifty merchants have continued for the third and fourth generations; the diligent and simple farming families have continued The fifth or sixth generation; and the eighth or ninth generation of a family of modesty, trust and filial piety.

------Book Excerpts

Taking farming and reading as the foundation and diligence and thrift as virtue.

------ (Ming Dynasty) Shi Naian

Gold has no seeds, but only gives birth to diligent and thrifty families.

------Book Excerpt

You are a proletarian, and diligence and thrift are my sect.

------Chen Yi