Self Denial Quotes

83 quotes by 66 authors

• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
• People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill
• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield
• Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of… — Walter Scott
• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs… — Charles Simmons
• Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw
• The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo
• Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
• Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly… — Vince Lombardi
• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. — Oscar Wilde
• I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit… — Joseph Williams
• This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom. — John Viney
• Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that… — George Whitefield
• Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. — Vince Lombardi
• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift… — Natalia Ginzburg
• Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. — Aldous Huxley
• The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment. — John F. MacArthur
• Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Who Wrote These Self Denial Quotes

66 authors contributed a total of 83 Self Denial Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 5 Self Denial Quotes by Vince Lombardi
• 4 Self Denial Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 3 Self Denial Quotes by Richard Baxter
• 3 Self Denial Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Og Mandino
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by George Sand
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by William Graham Sumner
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Walter Scott
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Pope Francis
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Matthew Henry
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Rumi
• 1 Self Denial Quote by John Owen
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Dan Barker
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Jackie Mason
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Marianne de Pierres
• 1 Self Denial Quote by David Brainerd
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Pope John Paul II
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Louisa May Alcott
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Harriet Martineau
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Grenville Kleiser
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Theodore Parker
• 1 Self Denial Quote by John Sterling
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Thornton T. Munger