There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.” — Evelyn Waugh 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
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
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
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
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
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the… — David Brainerd 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
Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of… — Pope Francis 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
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
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
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
The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that… — Richard Baxter 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
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
“It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means… — Innocent of Alaska 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
If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn 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
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little… — Charles Henry Fowler 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
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
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