Self-Denial Quotes
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde -
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
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Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
Mackenzie King -
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Oscar Wilde -
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. -
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 -
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
Victor Hugo -
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
Seneca the Younger -
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial. Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Self-denial is the best riches.
Seneca the Younger -
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Susie Orbach