Behavior Quote by Vernon Howard

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware…

— Stefan Zweig

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

— William Law

Deny Self for Self's sake

— Benjamin Franklin

“The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.”

— Stephen Richards

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

— Vivian Gornick

“DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality…

— Benjamin Sadock

“Not only can nobody deny the appearance of mere consciousness whose nature is other-dependent and not affected by the flaw of conceptions of a…

— Karl Brunnholzl

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

— David Hume

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as…

— Emily Post

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

— Sylvia Plath

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…

— Harriet Martineau

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain…

— Dallas Willard