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.
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.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
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.
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
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.
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.