Denial Quotes

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

What is art but the denial of life?

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

What state do you live in? Denial.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.