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«A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.»
«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.»
Author: Charles Simmons
| Keywords:
costs, denial, first step, glorious, homage, liable, maintain, opposition, self-denial
«One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.»
Author: George Sand
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
degree, denial, efforts, ingredients, self-denial, tastes
«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?»
«Fat is a way of saying ''no'' to powerlessness and self-denial.»
«A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
carriage, carriages, chaste, counsels, deportment, ingenuous, self-denial, unprejudiced
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. 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. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
allow, Brains, business, business life, carefully, cast, cast about, cast on, child, Child of God, combating, combats, days, defeat, denial, denials, entire, envy, envying, external, externals, fault, finding, flower, flower child, flower power, foolish, forces, fragile, gloom, guard, hate, jealously, life force, menial, No self, on guard, on your guard, pall, palls, parade, paraded, parading, permit, pieces, precious, pull, rain, required, sacrificed, self-denial, set, set up, shape, talent, thus, wasted, wasting time
«Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| Keywords:
authority, dedication, denial, denials, football, perseverance, sacrifice, self-denial, the Football
«DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. --Mumfrey Mappel»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abandoned, Advances, cleanly, comprise, comprises, comprising, daughters, delusion, denial, fancies, Father of, goodly, gross, hail, respectable, self-denial, Sons and Daughters, topsy-turvy, Topsy
«Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
breeding, denial, good nature, good sense, self-denial
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