Quotes on Self-denial

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.