Stingy Quotes

• Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

  George Balanchine

  Saving, Holding Back, Right Now

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Helping others entails learning how you are helped. In order to heal others, you must learn to heal yourself. Learning how to give to yourself is part of learning how to give to others. If you are stingy with yourself, you will be stingy with others. When you understand how everything is given to you, you will be able to give everything to others.

  Reb Anderson

  Helping Others, Order, Giving

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• You can never have too much, butter.

  Julie Powell

  Beach, Too Much, Garlic

  "Julie & Julia". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• You can never have too much money.

  Jess C Scott

  Beach, Too Much, Garlic

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• You can never have too much sky.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beach, Sky, Flipping A Coin

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.50, Vintage

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• We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.

  Gary Snyder

  Pain, Trying, World

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.4, Counterpoint Press

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• Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

  Fred Rogers

  Letting Go, Money, People

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• Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Husband, Real, Mean

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

  Reynolds Price

  Heart, Life Is Short, World

  Reynolds Price (1998). “Clear Pictures: First Loves First Guides”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

  Norman Douglas

  Food, Grandmother, Men

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• Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Penguin

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• Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Men, Widows And Orphans, Joy

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• I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  People, Giving, House

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• I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.

  Doris Duke

  Long, People, Cost

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• Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Heart, Blue

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• Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.

  Janet Mock

  Space, Mock

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• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Loyalty, Mean, Two

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• Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

  John French Sloan

  Paint, Materials, Worth It

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• Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Mean, Men, Opposites

  "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.

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• I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

  Saul Bellow

  Age, Realizing, Ifs

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• Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Thinking, Employee

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• Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend!

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Giving, Your Boyfriend, Malls

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• I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.

  Stephen Dunn

  Heart, Son, Hearted

  Stephen Dunn (2010). “What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fall, Political, Humanity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wise, Stupid, Fire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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