Self-denial Quotes

88 quotes by 71 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

71 authors contributed a total of 88 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 Aiden Wilson Tozer
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Walter Scott
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by William Graham Sumner
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Pope Francis
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Teresa of Avila
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Jacqueline Novogratz
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Salvador Bernal
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Matthew Henry
• 1 Self-denial Quote by William James
• 1 Self-denial Quote by John Owen
• 1 Self-denial Quote by John F. Kennedy
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Jackie Mason
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Self-denial Quote by David Brainerd
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Edmund Wilson
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Louisa May Alcott
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Caroline Knapp