A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw 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
Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial. — Salvador Bernal Copy Share Image
“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
“I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. — William Lyon Mackenzie King 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
Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal,… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
“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
Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay… — Frederick William Robertson 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
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
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“The most saddening thing is to admit that I am not in love. I can only love (if that means self denial… — Sylvia Plath 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
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
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
“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
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
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, and yet will neither give… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“If we weren’t trying to control whether a person liked us or his or her reaction to us, what would we do… — Melody Beattie 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
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. — Og Mandino 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
Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.' — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment. — Ella Woodward 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
“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