Self Denial Quotes
83 quotes by 66 authors
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
— Victor Hugo
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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
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
— Vince Lombardi
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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
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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
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The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
— John F. MacArthur
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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
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