Folk sayings about hard work and frugality:

Production is like a money tree, and conservation is like a cornucopia.

Thrift is a big harvest.

Thrift and economize, a little makes a lot, one drop or two, merge into a river.

Folk sayings about hard work and frugality

1. Production is like a money tree, and conservation is like a cornucopia.

2. Saving is a big harvest.

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

4. Looking back at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success was achieved through diligence and frugality, and prosperity was destroyed through luxury.

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

6. Sailing a boat depends on steering, and managing a house depends on thrift.

7. Hold hands tightly, every year.

8. With fine water and flowing water, you will not have to worry about food and clothing.

9. Save before your pocket is empty. (Buyi people)

10. Save a mouthful when you are full, and get a bucket when you are hungry.

11. Save a mouthful a day, a bucket a year.

12. If you cherish your clothes, you will have clothes to wear; if you cherish your food, you will have food to eat.

13. Love clothes to keep you warm, love food to keep you full.

14. Save money on cigarettes and alcohol, and seek help in times of emergency.

15. It takes three years of rotten rice to build a tall building, and three years of gruel to buy a cow. (Zhuang ethnic group)

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

17. Don’t drink alcohol for three years and buy a big buffalo.

18. Save money on meals, save money on clothes every day.

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

20. Knowledge comes from diligence, wealth comes from thrift.

Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, their success was due to diligence and frugality, and their success was due to extravagance.

Gold has no seeds, it comes from thrifty families.

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

Hold tightly, it will happen every year.

With fine water and flowing water, you will not have to worry about food and clothing.

Save before your pocket is empty. (Buyi people)

When you are full, you save a mouthful, but when you are hungry, you get a bucket.

A mouthful saved a day, a bucket saved a year.

If you cherish your clothes, you will have clothes to wear; if you cherish your food, you will have food to eat.

Love clothes to keep you warm, love food to keep you full.

Save money on cigarettes and alcohol, and seek help in times of emergency.

It takes three years of rotten rice to build a tall building, and three years of gruel to buy a cow. (Zhuang)

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

Don’t drink for three years and buy a big buffalo.

Save money on meals, save money on clothes every day.

Diligence without frugality is like having a needle without thread.

Learning comes from hard work, and wealth comes from thrift.

If a family has a lot of money, they don’t light up double lamps.

If you don’t save in winter, you will have to worry about spring; if you don’t work in summer, there will be no harvest in autumn. (Xibo ethnic group)

Money is worth tens of thousands of yuan a piece, and wheat is worth a stone one by one.

It won’t be difficult to collect change when the time comes.

The drizzle falls into a river, and the grains of rice make up a basket.

A drop of water makes a river, and a grain of rice makes a basket.

One and a half stars equals 20% of the catty.

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

Ten spoons make a bowl of rice. (Korean ethnic group)

A piece of coal is not too much, a thousand pieces of coal are piled up into a slope; a drop of oil is not too much, the little bits and pieces add up to form a river. (Hui nationality)

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

A good harvest should be celebrated in a lean year. (Yugu ethnic group)

A harvest of thousands of stones requires a simple diet.

When food is put into warehouses, don’t forget disasters and famines.

No matter how much grain you have, you still need to prepare several pots of wild vegetables.

Half-year grain of rice bran.

Eat and drink lavishly, looking after the present, and live frugally to survive the famine.

Slender water flows every year, but eating and drinking does not last long.

The family has tens of thousands of burdens, but they don’t take off to mend their clothes or throw away leftovers.

It is a simple meal, but a steady flow of water.

Having nothing but simple meals is a blessing.

Be diligent and frugal, and your life will be sweet and sweet.

You must be frugal at home, and you must be diligent when starting a business.

One grain of rice requires ninety-nine labors.

Those who do not cherish autumn will not truly love spring; those who do not cherish fruits will not truly love flowers.

A grain of rice, a drop of sweat, a grain of grain and a drop of sweat.

One porridge and one meal should be remembered as hard-earned; half a thread and half a thread should be kept in mind that material resources are difficult.

Be frugal in food and clothing.

Common clothes are warm and vegetables are fragrant.

Cloth robes and grass shoes are wind and cold resistant.

If the food is not good enough, it can satisfy the hunger; if the body is not rich, it can be covered.

Think before and after, and always have enough food and clothing.

It is better to eat than to eat thousands.

In terms of eating, it is still home-cooked food, and in terms of wearing, it is still coarse cloth.

You can grow old with simple meals; you can grow old with coarse cloth and cotton-padded clothes.

Three years of new life, three years of old life, and another three years of mending.

It is not ugly to laugh when it is broken but not to mend it, and when it is worn out it is not ugly.

Laugh at the dirty stuff, laugh at the broken stuff, but laugh at the bad stuff.

Clothes are only worn out.

Borrowing someone else’s clothes is not neat.

Economic use and avoid asking for help.

With one diligence, two frugality and three savings, the whole family will be happier.

If you want to live a good life, the three treasures are hard work, frugality and savings.

The mouse still has three cents of food left. The head of the grain is not thrifty, and the tail of the grain is called rice.

Sow in spring and reap in autumn, save now for future use.

If you don’t have enough food and clothing, you will suffer from poverty if you don’t plan.

A pound of food is worth a thousand grains of sweat. Eat frugally and plan carefully.

I am afraid of settling the zero accounts. Be broad and use narrowly, and be prepared.

Plan carefully for half a year’s food.

Forget it and then use it, it will always be more than enough, but after using it, it will be too late to regret it.

Go out and walk to check the direction of the wind, dress and eat, and measure your belongings.

There will always be days when there will be no days, but there will be days when there will be no days and there will be days when there will be no days.

If you want to spend it, ten dollars should be spent; if you should not spend it, you should save one dollar.

If you use it properly, it will cost you nothing; if you don’t use it, you will spend nothing.

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

Don’t forget the hardships of farmers when eating, and don’t forget the busy workers when dressing.

Eating and dressing depends on the family’s wealth.

Only compete with others in farming, don’t compete with others in celebrating the New Year.

Frugality can help integrity.

Diligence pays off, but playfulness is useless.

Diligence is a priceless treasure.

Rain makes the earth green, and hard work makes people admire. (Kirgiz)

It is better to be a king in the ruins than a gardener in the orchard. (Kazakh nationality)

The plan for a year lies in spring, and the plan for a lifetime lies in diligence.

With diligence, nothing is difficult in the world, and hard work pays off.

You have to be frugal at home, and you have to be diligent when starting a business.

The vast ocean comes from small streams; great achievements come from hard work. (Manchu)

Work hard to move mountains.

Diligence and thrift lead to great harvest.

Gold is everywhere, waiting for hardworking people.

The hands of hard-working people are the father of all things. (Kazakh)

A thousand gold coins can be wasted even if you are indolent and indolent, but a thousand gold coins can be worth it with both hands if you are diligent and brave. (Naxi Nationality)

The cold weather does not freeze the hardworking people, and the loess does not lose its strength to the hardworking people.

The hands of the weaver girl are not cold when the weather is cold, and the hard work is not hungry when the weather is cold.

Hunting is the only way to get animals, and hard work is the only way to get income. (Oroqen Nationality)

If you don’t work hard, you won’t get any results. (Xibobo tribe)

There is a harvest only if you work hard. (Korean)

Sweat more in summer and suffer less cold in winter. (Mongolian)

Spring appears in the blooming flowers; autumn appears in the abundant fruits.

No work is done in the third month of spring, and the north wind blows in the twelfth lunar month of winter.

Fertilizer is the treasure of the land, and sweat is the honey of the harvest. (Uygur)

You sweat a lot in spring, and you can’t finish singing songs in autumn. (Kirgiz ethnic group)

Hard work will usher in the joy of battle, and hard sweat will bring you successive years of bumper harvests. (Kirgiz)

A bowl of butter is made with thousands of drops of milk; a bowl of tsampa is made with thousands of drops of sweat. (Tibetan)

One drop of sweat can bring thousands of grains of grain, and ten thousand grains of sweat can fill the warehouse.

If you don’t want to sweat, you can’t eat.

Those who have worked hard under the sun will feel at ease eating under the shade of trees.

Gold and silver cannot be bought with diligence.

Money is a dead treasure, while strength is a living treasure. Dead treasures are not as good as living treasures.

Don’t be afraid of poverty, be afraid of diligence.

The pole is like a dragon, and it can eat endlessly in its lifetime.

If the pole is raised horizontally, there is food, but if the pole is raised up, there is no food.

The spinning wheel is a money tree. If you spin it every day, you will naturally become rich.

Work hard and you won’t be poor.

The men are diligent in farming and the women are diligent in weaving. They have enough clothes and enough food.

The land has no partiality and only loves hard-working people.

Even if gold falls from the sky, you have to get up early.

Get up early on the third day and arrive at work.

Three lights in the morning, three panics in the night, everything goes well in the morning.

There is no winter for hunters. (Kazakh)

It is better to work hard than to show off your ability in eating.

When the flowers are in full bloom, the gardener bends over from exhaustion. (Afghanistan)

If you want your car to go fast, you have to oil it frequently. (USA)

Honesty and diligence should be your permanent companions. (USA)

It is better to say: "I am working". Don't say: "I'm chatting." (Africa)

Success is the reward for hard work. (Greece)

Without hard labor, there would be no scientific creation. (Yugoslavia)

Invention is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent blood and sweat. (USA)

Even if the gods are against you, hard work will always pay off. (India)

Hardworking people can turn everything into gold. (Spain)

Only the wings of hard work can prove that the world is not far away from heaven. (Iran)

God likes people who are diligent and quick. (Soviet Union)

The owner of the land is not the people who walk on it, but the people who work hard on it. (Soviet Union)

Those who have worked under the scorching sun will feel the sweetness of eating.

(Africa)

Idleness is like sour vinegar, which softens the calcium of the spirit; diligence is like fire and wine, which can burn the flame of wisdom. (Türkiye)

The first cow to get up gets the first drop of morning dew. (UK)

The early bird catches more bugs. (UK)

Those who get up at dawn are not afraid of dew getting their feet wet. (Africa)

Those who do not rise with the sun will not be able to enjoy the happiness of that day. (UK)

Get up early and go further. (Soviet Union)

The future belongs to those who get up early. (France)

A day of hard work will lead to a good night's sleep; a lifetime of hard work will lead to a long and happy sleep. (Italy)

Busy people have no time to shed tears. (UK)

He who is diligent with his ax has no shortage of firewood. (Africa)

Industriousness means that there is no shortage of everything, and laziness means that there is nothing. (Nepal)

Hard work is happiness created with blood and sweat. (Latin America)

Wells that are frequently filled with water are not easy to dry out. (UK)

A frequently turned mill will not grow moss (UK)

Keys that are frequently used must be shiny. (Arabia)

If you want green mountains and green waters, you must always plant trees. (France)

Only human labor is sacred. (Soviet Union)

Workers understand happiness best. (Cambodia)

The road to honor is paved by labor. (Italy)

Don’t shrink from work and say it’s impossible, labor will make you create everything. (India)

Labor can turn ordinary times into festivals.

Labor can save people from loneliness, nausea and poverty. (France)

What is worthy of pride is labor, not a pretty face. (Soviet Union)

Trees are famous for their fruits, and people are famous for their labor. (Soviet Union)

People's real wealth is the ability to work. (Greece)

Labor is living gold and silver. (France)

Labor is the most reliable wealth. (France)

Whoever has flax seeds has his own shirt. (Romania)

Labor makes people noble. (Soviet Union)

Being separated from labor is tantamount to a crime. (Soviet Union)

Boredom is a disease, and the best prescription is labor. (France)

Grapes cannot grow by praying alone. You must work with hoes and shovels. (Albania)

Spiders that don’t spin webs can’t catch bugs. (North Korea)

Although there are good seeds, it is too early to celebrate the harvest. (North Korea)

The arrow shot into the forest will never miss. (Tanzania)

If you are a good man, plant the fruits in the orchard, taste the flowers when you are young, and eat the fruits when you are old. (Soviet Union)

What you sow in youth you will reap in old age. (Norway)

Working hands can turn stone into gold, and non-working hands can turn gold into stone. (North Korea)

Without labor, even the fish in the pond cannot be fished out. (Soviet Union)

Teaching him how to fish can save him from hunger forever. (Sri Lanka)

A fool at work is much better than a smart man lying in bed. (Soviet Union)

If you don’t sow seeds, you won’t get seedlings. (Japan)

Whoever doesn’t plant seeds has no chance of eating anything. (Mozambique)

Only by planting saplings can you eat the fruits. (Cambodia)

Sow in spring and reap in autumn, save now for future use. (North Korea)

Achievements are made with both hands. (Afghanistan)

Those who dig wells have the right to draw water from the wells. (Mozambique)

The fruits of labor are sweeter than all fruits. (Europe)

The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all fruits. (Europe)

The honey in the lowest house is the sweetest.

(UK)