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Letter "S" » self-denial
«One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thought, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.»
«People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.»
«The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.»
«The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of such exertion, they begin to degenerate sooner or later in both body and mind»
Author: Thomas Mellon
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The Descendants,
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«The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.»
Author: Thornton T. Munger
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Scientist)
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«There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.»
«Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.»
«Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego»
«Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality»
«Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.»