Famous verses about diligence and frugality

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

2. Don’t think about danger in times of peace, abstain from extravagance and be frugal; this is also the same as cutting down the roots in order to make the trees flourish, blocking the source in order to have a long flow. ——Wei Zheng

3. Building a family is like picking up soil with a needle, and losing a family is like waves washing through the sand. Success comes from diligence and frugality, failure comes from luxury. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

4. Don’t pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls with a bucket (Kazakh) Don’t eat the fruits of hard work in one sitting (Uyghur) Diligence can make up for weakness, and saving can make up for poverty.

5. Frugality is the secret to getting rich. (UK)

6. Small things don’t mean empty pockets. ——Tomor

7. Coins are round, so they roll away easily. ——Toriiano

8. 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.

9. Don’t pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls with a bucket (Kazakh)

10. Don’t eat the fruits of hard work in one go (Uygur) ) The family has ten thousand stones of food, but the heap will not grow long.

11. It is better to kill a cow and eat its meat than to keep it for milking. ——Tibetan proverb

12. When you have money, you will be ostentatious, but when you have no money, you will go hungry.

13. If you want to have enough food and clothing, be diligent and thrifty.

14. Hold hands tightly, every year.

15. Diligence can make up for clumsiness, and saving can make up for poverty.

16. Thinking before and after, food and clothing are often not enough. Pay careful attention to your budget.

17. People wearing tattered cloaks are often good drinkers (Spain).

18. Even if you have to harvest thousands of kilo of food, you still need to have a simple meal.

19. Those who know how to eat will eat a thousand meals, and those who can’t eat will eat one meal.

20. Pay careful attention to your budget.

21. Plan carefully and have food and clothing; eat and drink extravagantly and sell pots in the house.

22. Small wealth comes from frugality, and great wealth comes from heaven.

23. Don’t drink or smoke. You can save countless money in three years. Frugality is the secret to wealth. (UK)

24. Frugality itself is a property. (UK) Accumulate small profits and become rich. (UK)

25. Saving a penny is equivalent to producing a penny (UK) How much you save is how much you get (Denmark)

26. The inevitable consequences of luxury are weathered Disintegration in turn causes a corruption of taste. (UK)

27. 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

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

29. Luxury and prostitution are just phenomena of social corruption, not the cause. ——Lu Xun

30. A person who pursues a high-level material life at any cost must have low-level thoughts and morals. —— Qianhu

31. Luxury is the death of virtue (Switzerland)

32. Luxury is the starting point of national weakness (Cuba) Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is man-made Poverty (Greece)

33. Building a family is like picking through soil with a needle, and losing a family is like wading through the sand. Diligence and frugality will never lead to poverty, and even sitting on a mountain of food will lead to nothing. ——Folk proverb It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality

34. If you don’t know how to save a small amount of money, you will spend a lot of money indiscriminately (UK)

It is easier to get through difficulties when you are rich; whoever is luxurious and luxurious when you are rich will die of hunger and cold when you are poor. ——Sadie

36. Luxury always follows lust, and lust always follows luxury. ——Montesquieu

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

38. Extravagance leads to more desires. A gentleman who is too lustful will seek wealth and honor, which will lead to disaster in vain. ——Sima Guang

39. Extravagance means taking things for granted and humiliating one's ambition; if one is frugal, one has nothing to ask for from others and no guilt from oneself, which can nourish one's spirit. ——Luo Dajing

40. Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success is caused by diligence and frugality, and destruction is caused by extravagance. ——Li Shangyin

41. Quietness cultivates one’s character, and frugality cultivates virtue. ——Zhuge Liang

42. If you strengthen your foundation and use it sparingly, you will never be poor. ——Xun Kuang

43. Those who are extravagant and lazy are poor, while those who are powerful and thrifty are rich. ——Han Fei

44. Frugality itself is a property. (UK)

45. Frugality is an endless feast in your life. (Emerson)

46. How much you save is how much you get. (Denmark)

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

48. Luxury is like wine, which both excites and debilitates people. (Karl)

49. Luxury is the starting point of national weakness.

(Cuba)

50. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. (Greece)

51. A porridge and a meal should be remembered as hard-earned, and half a strand of persistent thoughts are hard to come by. ——"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions"

52. Who knows that every grain of lunch on the plate is hard work. A porridge and a meal are exchanged for beads of sweat.

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

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

55. Frugality is an endless feast in your life. ——Emerson

56. Once comfortable enjoyment becomes a habit, it makes people almost completely unable to feel the fun, and becomes a real need of people. ——Rousseau

57. Whoever scrimps on food and clothing on weekdays will easily survive when he is poor; whoever is luxurious and extravagant when he is rich will die of hunger and cold when he is poor. ——Sadie's "Rose Garden"

58. Luxury is just getting happiness from the labor of others. ——Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Law"

59. A gentleman is concerned about morality but not poverty. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Wei Linggong"

60. With limited financial resources and unlimited expenses, one should live within one's means. ——Yan Zhitui

61. Always think of sometimes as no time, and never think of no time as sometimes. ——"Zeng Tang Xian Wen"

62. Things in the world are often achieved by diligence and frugality but failed by extravagance. ——Lu You

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

64. The journey of a husband and a gentleman is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate one’s virtue through frugality. Without indifference, one will not be able to clarify one’s aspirations, and without tranquility, one will not be able to reach far. ——Zhuge Liang

65. 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;