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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

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation. — Eric Jerome Dickey

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect. — Sweety Shinde

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

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin — Barbara W. Tuchman

Denial and the desire to self-destruct are elemental cousins; mining one yields the other in equal proportion. — Domenica Ruta

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

Never deny yourself any pleasure, real or imaginary. — Marty Rubin

Self-denial is the best riches. — Seneca The Younger

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

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. — Louisa May Alcott

To sum it up: Discipline + Self-denial = Cents for the Kingdom! — Michelle Singletary

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

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

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know. — Ahmed Mostafa

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself. — Criss Jami

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. — Ernest Hemingway,

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo

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

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself. — Sarah Dessen

Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty. — Marty Rubin

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

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

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

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE. — Michelle Cook-Hall

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

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial. — Matthew Henry

Pain is frightening when it shows its real face, but it's seductive when it comes disguised as sacrifice or self-denial.Or cowardice. — Paulo Coelho

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. — John Sterling

[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

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

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

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

Denial of the Self accomplishes nothing. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Self-denial is a monkish virtue. — David Hume

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell. — Shannon L. Alder

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

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty. — Thomas A Kempis

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. — Walter Scott

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial ... C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism
self-denial. — G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God. — Craig Groeschel

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

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain. — Gabor Mate

Pay attention. Be alert. Don't be in denial. Learn — Marxxha

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

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

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline — Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

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

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

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

There has to be some self-denial. — Joe Paterno

True admiration," said Mrs. Keith, "is one half respect and the other half self-denial. — Henry James

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

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

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

What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies. — Margaret Atwood

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

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 spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back. — Dennis Garvin

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

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

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

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls. — Stephanie Grant

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial. — Philip Zaleski

Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial. — T.F. Hodge

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

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

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

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. — Theodore Parker

I protect myself by refusing to know myself. — Floriano Martins

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

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

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial. — Pope John Paul II

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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