Self-denial Quotes

88 Self-denial quotes by 70 unique authors

• 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
• 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
• Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial. — Salvador Bernal
• So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like… — William James

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