There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought,… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
“If self-denial be the greatest part of godliness, the great letter in the alphabet of religion; self-love is the great letter in… — William Symington Copy Share Image
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
“True Calvinism always leads to the appreciation of self-denial. When the doctrines of grace are warmly preached, denial of self is necessarily… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for… — John Viney Copy Share Image
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
“Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer… — Ramon M. Torres Copy Share Image
In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We like food but hate challenges; when challenges are what grows our character stature. You need plates of self-discipline and spoons of… — Michael Mbuko Copy Share Image
