"Self-denial" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... point about them is this: that the new miser is flattered for his meanness and the old one never was. It was never called self-denial in the old miser that he lived on bones. It is called self-denial in the new millionaire if he lives on beans. A man like Dancer was never praised as a Christian saint for going in rags. A man like Rockefeller is ...
— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton
... remorseless in bringing them to the test of experiment. "Hypotheses which are not founded in Nature please me not," wrote he,—as Newton inscribed "Hypotheses non fingo" on the "Principia." Surely never was such heroic self-denial. Centurial vigils of baffling calculations —(remember, there was then little Algebra, and neither Calculus nor Logarithms)—were sacrificed without a regret except for the time expended, his tireless intellect pressing on to new heights ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... solemnity. Slowly bending, body and soul, she communed with her own heart and was still, until it burned within her, and the supplication came. When she rose from her knees, she was resigned in all things to God's will, no matter what self-denial it involved; and she was not unhappy. For, O believe this truth, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness! Most blessed are those souls who are capable of lodging so great a guest as Sorrow, who know how to regret, and how to desire, and who have ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... for a long time in feeble health, but was unwilling to leave his post of duty even temporarily to secure his recovery. His services in this field of the A.M.A. have been characterized by self-denial, patience and faithfulness. He was intensely loyal to his convictions and died having fought the good ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 42, No. 2, February 1888 • Various
... writer; finally from the apprehension that our gossiping criticism will identify the artistic work of the writer with his personal life and will start rummaging in his dirty linen. Or perhaps they can find neither the time, nor the self-denial, nor the self-possession to plunge in head first into this life and to watch it right up close, without prejudice, without sonorous phrases, without a sheepish pity, in all its monstrous simplicity and everyday ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
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