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Self Denial Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
- A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
More Self Denial Quotes
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield
- Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott
- Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in… — Charles Simmons
- This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for… — John Viney
- Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding… — George Whitefield
- As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg
- Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. — Susie Orbach