Self Abnegation Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed…
— Victor Hugo
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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we…
— Michael Faraday
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way…
— George F. Richards
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There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience…
— Herman Melville
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As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it…
— Paulo Freire
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We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence,…
— Marquis de Sade
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[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public…
— Antonia Fraser
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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and…
— Lincoln Kirstein
Who Wrote These Self Abnegation Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Self Abnegation Quotes as follows: