There has to be some self-denial.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

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

Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

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

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

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.

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.

Virat is in your face, he wants to dominate and has a work ethic like no one else. Whether it comes to discipline, training, sacrifice or self-denial, it is unbelievable.

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

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.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

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.

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