“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.” — Thomas à Kempis 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
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot 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
Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
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
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
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James Copy Share Image
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“But some of it (evangelistic persuasion) is going to come through service. The deficit that many Christians face is that people look… — Skip Vaccarello Copy Share Image
The willpower to hold onto the impossible stems from self denial embellished in your mind from the start of time replacing the… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image