Self-denial Quotes

88 Self-denial quotes by 70 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
• Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! — Charles Studd
• It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare… — Charles Grandison Finney
• We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master! — Jim Elliot
• The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,… — John of Kronstadt
• The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the… — Theophan the Recluse
• Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we… — Saint John Chrysostom
• The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up… — Unknown Author
• 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

Who Wrote These Self-denial Quotes

70 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 William Graham Sumner
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Walter Scott
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Pope Francis
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Og Mandino
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 2 Self-denial Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer
• 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 Victor Hugo
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Thornton T. Munger
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• 1 Self-denial Quote by Theophan the Recluse
• 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