“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“Self-denial is the birth pang of spiritual joy. No woman seeks birth pangs, but she willingly endures them for the pleasure of… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“My education had equipped me to suffer in silence, a form of passive endurance. Even though I know nothing about being brave,… — Farida Karodia Copy Share Image
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“The idea of self-denial for the sake of posterity, of practicing present economy for the sake of debtors yet unborn, of planting… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“We can “forget” about ourselves because Christ never forgets us. We can afford to be less important to ourselves because we are… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith,… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew… — Charles Dickens 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
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. — John Flavel 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 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
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain… — George Sand Copy Share Image
If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up… — Niketas Stethatos 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
Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
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