32 Inspiring Budgeting Quotes To Improve Your Finances

Living on a budget will enable you to lead a financially secure life.

If you are struggling to live on a budget and need some motivation to stay on track, then you have come to the right place.

I have listed down 32 Budgeting quotes to help you stay on your budget.

32 Budgeting Quotes

“A budget is telling your money where to go, instead of wondering where it went.” – John Maxwell

“A debt problem is, at its core, a budgeting problem.” – Natalie Pace

“Used correctly, a budget doesn’t restrict you; it empowers you.” – Tere Stouffer

“Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.” – Phil Gramm

“Budgeting is not just for people who do not have enough money. It is for everyone who wants to ensure that their money is enough.” – Rosette Mugidde Wamambe

“Budgeting is the first step toward financial freedom” – Unknown

“The secret to budgeting is that it needs to be honest. Not what you think it should be or wish it could be, but what it really is.” – Lisa Conway-Hughes

“Budget reflects a choice, not an easy choice, but the right choice.” – George Pataki

“Adults devise a plan and follow it. Children do what feels good. Be an adult and make a budget.” – Dave Ramsey

“A budget is a financial plan to control future operations and results.” ― Jae K. Shim

“Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.” – Jeff Merkley

“We must consult our means rather than our wishes.” – George Washington

“A budget is a plan for your money. It is how you want to spend your money. Financially smart people create a saving budget first and then plan the spending budget. Are you financially smart?” – Nita Menezes

“A budget isn’t about restricting what you can spend. It gives you permission to spend without guilt or regret.” – Dave Ramsey

“In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.” – George Kaiser

“A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t stop us from buying it.” – William Feather

“Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.” – Jeff Merkley

“It’s not your salary that makes you rich; it’s your spending habits.” – Charles A. Jaffe

“The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.” – Idowu Koyenikan

“Beware of little expenses; a small leak can sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin

“When you know the impact of little expenses, you will realize that there is nothing little in this world.” – Manoj Arora

“He who buys what he does not need, steals from himself.” – Swedish Proverb

“Saving is the gap between your ego and your income.” – Morgan Housel

“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” — Dave Ramsey

“Just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you should buy it.” – Suze Orman

“Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.” – Warren Buffett

“A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.” – John Rampton

“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.” – Brigham Young

“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” – Helen Gurley Brown

“Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.” – Earl Wilson

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.” – Zig Ziglar

“When I do something stupid with money and lose it, I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am an expert.” – Dave Ramsey