Thrift Quotes

Never spend money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Aesop

Thrift is a great revenue.

Cicero

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Cicero

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

John D Rockefeller

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

Longfellow

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

Gilbert K Chesterton

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

Philip Sidney

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Thomas Carlyle

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Gertrude Jekyll

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Edison

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

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

J Paul Getty

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity.

Theodore Roosevelt

Such a simplified lifestyle can be truly wonderful - you'll finally have time for the things you really love, for relaxation, for outdoor activities, for exercise, for reading or finding peace and quiet, for the loved ones in your life, for the things you're most passionate about. This is what it means to thrive - to live a life full of the things you want in them, and not more. To live a better quality of life without having to spend and buy and consume.

Leo Babauta