Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Integrity is the first step to true greatness.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
The first lesson in Christ's school is 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.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
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.
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.
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
or simply:
