Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Thrift

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
William of Ockham (1288–1347) English Philosopher, Theologian

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.
S. W. Straus (1866–1930) American Banker, Philanthropist

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse

When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious.
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–91) French Poet, Adventurer

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

Frugality is misery in disguise.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Be thrifty, but not covetous.
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats (1795–1821) English Poet

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Thrift is of great revenue.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.
Owen D. Young (1874–1962) American Businessperson, Lawyer, Diplomat

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) American Oil Magnate, Philanthropist

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) English Statesman

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