Top 102 Frugal Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I've been really frugal with money since way back, so I can't buy something if it's too expensive. I'm not that brave.
I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.
How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.
Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.
You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.
I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.
I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.
Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on a frugal budget.
It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.
I love kitchenware. I'm very frugal and I don't buy a lot of things, but I'm frivolous when it comes to buying groceries and kitchenware.
I'm frugal. It's often cheaper to take the subway. And I'm an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really believe in public transportation. And finally, I love the proximity to people in the subway.
While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs
I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.
You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.
I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.
I'm quite famously frugal.
Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.
In real life, I'm frugal. And, yes, I do love to shop at Marshall's.
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal
neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth
but himself.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.
Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.
Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.
It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.
I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.
Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.
I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.
I am not frugal - I'm quite a big spender - but not on credit.
Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'
This is Staples. On a good day, we get to stay at the Marriott Courtyard. We have a frugal culture.
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
