Self Denial Quotes

83 Self Denial quotes by 66 unique authors

• Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to… — John Owen
• By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and… — Jackie Mason
• I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am… — David Brainerd
• Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. — Louisa May Alcott
• Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better… — Harriet Martineau
• Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. — Theodore Parker
• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. — John Sterling
• Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. — Susie Orbach
• Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction… — Mikhail Bakunin
• I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,… — Kurt Hahn
• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time… — Alexis Carrel
• A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He… — Alvin R. Dyer
• There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner
• There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. — Walter Scott
• I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. — Winston Churchill
• DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. — Ambrose Bierce
• The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has… — Witness Lee
• Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich… — Pope Francis
• Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in… — Vince Lombardi
• Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton
• It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa of Avila
• When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial… — Jacqueline Novogratz
• To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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 William Graham Sumner
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Walter Scott
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Pope Francis
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Og Mandino
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by George Sand
• 2 Self Denial Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Witness Lee
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Self Denial Quote by William Lyon Mackenzie King
• 1 Self Denial Quote by William James
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Vincent Nichols
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Thornton T. Munger
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Theodore Parker
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Theodore C. Sorensen
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Teresa of Avila
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Susie Orbach
• 1 Self Denial Quote by Seneca the Younger