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Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary. — Sam Owen

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms. — Seneca The Younger

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint. — John F. Kennedy

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves! — Richard Baxter

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence. — Ashim Shanker

Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like — Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. — David Brooks

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. — Joseph Conrad

Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

...years of resolute self-denial, instead of rewarding him with reserves of fortitude, had left him more than ordinarily susceptible to temptation. — John Cheever

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa Of Avila

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. — James Anthony Froude

involve self-denial or giving-up of something. Relinquishment or tyag is the real content of renunciation — J.M. Mehta

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body. — Evelyn Waugh

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 the road which is too hard for us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. — Shannon L. Alder

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church. — Pope Francis

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. — Richard Baxter

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

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity. — George Orwell

The first important act of self-denial for 21st-century followers of Jesus may be to say no to being too busy to be a disciple. — Thomas Oord

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. — Eric Hoffer

female health issues stem from "denial of the self and rejecting femininity"; — Doreen Virtue

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial. — Salvador Bernal

The only aberration is denial of self. — L. Ron Hubbard

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore De Balzac

The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth. — Criss Jami

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue. — Jen Pollock Michel

Denial of the Self accomplishes nothing. — Abhijit Naskar

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. — Oscar Wilde

... he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher

Self-denial is spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. — G.K. Chesterton

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery. — Orrin Woodward

There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour. — Peter Tatchell

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

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. — Ambrose Bierce

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. — Vince Lombardi

That as long as I kept them apart, love would be sexless and sex loveless, endlessly repeating its cycle of self-denial and self-abuse. — Paul Monette

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy. — Lord Acton

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. — Frank Herbert

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money. — Catherine Crook De Camp

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets. — J.I. Packer

There can only be two basic loves ... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God. — Augustine Of Hippo

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes. — Criss Jami

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield

The denial of death is self-hatred. — Simon Critchley

Most of us are adept at maintaining our self-structures and denying to awareness experiences which challenge our status quo. — Alan Coulson

If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life. — Sunday Adelaja

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play. — Sylvia Plath

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. — Susie Orbach

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self. — Henry Blackaby

Sometimes the smallest acts of sacrifice or self-denial can break up hard soil. A — John Ortberg

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case. — Richelle E. Goodrich

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. — Hilaire Belloc

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton

The sweetness of self-denial and self-control, — Louisa May Alcott