Definition of Self-Denial

Self-denial

The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.

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Self-Denial Quotations

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi

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

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
Mikhail Bakunin

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

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner

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

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
David Brainerd

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen

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

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

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

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