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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
• 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… — 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
• 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… — 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… — Vince Lombardi
• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. — Oscar Wilde

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