"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as……" — William Lyon Mackenzie King
"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."
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William Lyon Mackenzie King
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37 Quotes by William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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Every hour of useful work is precious.
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I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
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I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed…
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A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the…
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Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to…
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of…
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Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
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Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime…
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More Denial Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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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
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
— Javier Bardem
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who…
— Martha Beck
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
— David Bowie
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization…
— Barbara Boxer
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People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
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