Zitat des Tages über Selbstverleugnung / Self-Denial:
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
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.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment.
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.
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
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.
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.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
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).
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.