Denial Quotes · Page 9

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

— Mary McMullen

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

— Richard Baxter

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

— James Anthony Froude

Life is full of attachments, so being single is a state of inadvertent denial.

— Rashida Khilawala

“Positive thinking founded on denial may not be so great.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.”

— Blaise Pascal

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

— Swami Vivekananda

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

— Vince Lombardi

“Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

— Eckhart Tolle

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

— Arthur Bryant

“High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Denial of contraception to women without the financial means to afford it could cause substantial economic burdens, and even greater burdens if…

— Mike Quigley

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is…

— Timothy Keller

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims…

— Mira Sorvino

“To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to…

— David L. Calof

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and…

— Joshua Chamberlain

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“Here at the end of the world, with the climate crisis bearing down like Godzilla over downtown Tokyo, U.S. taxpayer subsidies for…

— Rachel Maddow

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of…

— Audre Lorde

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to…

— Melody Beattie

“It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before…

— Shannon L. Alder

What we're seeing is an era where governments and huge organizations such as the IOC don't have accountability. They don't have accountability…

— Bryan Fogel

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear…

— Zhuangzi

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I…

— Amy Carmichael

Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the…

— James E. Faust

I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

— Graham Norton

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

— Ralph Nader

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.”

— Chris Dietzel

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

— Pete Townshend

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

— Lucy Lawless

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

— Salvador Bernal

When you ask for advice it means that you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

— Anonymous