50 Budget Quotes For More Abundance

Check out these realistic budget quotes that can help put some budgeting concepts into perspective for you.

Everyone wants to save where they can.

Learning to budget is something all of us can accomplish.

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What are the benefits of reading these budget quotes?

It never feels good not to know what happened to our money.

Budgets are:

• proactive
• a responsible way to handle our resources
• part of being a mature adult

Finance coach Dave Ramsey said, “A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

American author William Feather reminds us, “A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.”

Learning to be disciplined and smart with money and abundance is part of our development and growth.

Anybody can write their expenses, but it takes mindfulness to live by those parameters.

Take a moment to check out this article about splurging!

Top 10 budget quotes

1. “It’s insane to try to balance the budget.” — William Vickrey

2. “Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.” — Farah Khan

3. “Budgeting only has one rule; Do not go over budget.” — Leslie Tayne

4. “A budget doesn’t limit your freedom; it gives you freedom.” — Rachel Cruze

5. “What I wanted to do was see if we couldn’t balance the budget.” — Wilbur Mills

6. “I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.” — Guillermo del Toro

7. “It’s time to stop spending money we don’t have and balance the budget.” — Joni Ernst

8. “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” — Joe Biden

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

10. “A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” — Dave Ramsey

Balanced budget quotes about government and life

11. “There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.” — Kevin Brady

12. “A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.” — Barack Obama

13. “Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.” — William Vickrey

14. “It’s certainly possible to live on a SNAP budget, but it’s impossible to feed yourself or your family healthy, nutritious food.” — Michelle Lujan Grisham

15. “The cold, harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.” — Michael Bloomberg

16. “The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.” — Alex Pareene

17. “If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.” — Jaime Lerner

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

19. “My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important – creating jobs.” — Jack Markell

20. “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

Inspirational budget quotes about various kinds of budgets

21. “My buildings are all on budget.” — Frank Gehry

22. “I grew up working in Canada, so everything was low budget.” — Elliot Page

23. “Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.” — Nick Park

24. “We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.” — James Lankford

25. “When you’re in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there’s no difference.” — Monica Bellucci

26. “You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.” — Thomas Hughes

27. “A budget matters to Americans who can’t afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.” — Susan Brooks

28. “It’s all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It’s all right to talk about how we’re going to appropriate.” — Sheila Jackson Lee

29. “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

30. “The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.” — Carl Levin

Budget quotes about America and churches

31. “Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don’t understand why it’s so important for us to have a budget.” — Susan Brooks

32. “It always depends on who you work with. It is not about the budget, not about the countries but about people.” — Ana de Armas

33. “The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.” — William Vickrey

34. “Throughout the 40 years I’ve been in Washington, I’ve always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.” — Leon Panetta

35. “An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art – or at least people call it that.” — Frank Gehry

36. “The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.” — Bill Gates

37. “When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.” — Charles R. Swindoll

38. “It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.” — Pete Stark

39. “Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.” — Matt Taibbi

40. “There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.” — William Vickrey

Simple budget quotes to remember

41. “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” — George W. Bush

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

43. “A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.” — Mary Landrieu

44. “Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.” – Rick Scott

45. “The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.” — Jack Lew

46. “It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.” — Newt Gingrich

47. “If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.” — Glenn Kelman

48. “An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art – or at least people call it that.” — Frank Gehry

49. “We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.” — Ronald Reagan

50. “Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.” — Phyllis Schlafly

You can tell a lot from a budget

It is like a picture of our spending habits.

Where our money goes reflects what is important to us.

Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew noted our budgets say much about us, sharing that “The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.”

We put our resources into things that we deem necessary.

President Joe Biden echoed this sentiment.

He said, “Don’t tell me what you value; show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”

So when you look at your budget, what does it say about you?

Are you prioritizing things you need or things you want?

Are you making your resources work for you, or are you constantly working for your resources?

These questions can help you plan a budget that works best for you and your lifestyle.

Here are some great budget planners to get you started.

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