Self Denial Quotes
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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,
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
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
The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
— 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
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
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
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
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
The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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
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