Denial Quotes

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Jane Taylor

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning.

CHARLES TREMPER

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness calling their denial knowledge.

George Eliot

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

Hal Borland

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gandhi

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore De Balzac

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform.

Christina Baldwin

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

Poker teaches self-reliance, self-control, self-respect, self-denial, and independence. But when cards are wild or are given fictitious authority, the noble game is robbed of its romance, grace and stimulation and degenerates into a gambling scheme.

Henry Fountain Ashurst

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Susie Orbach

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Jacques Lipchitz

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

John Sterling

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.

Mikhail Bakunin

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Ambrose Bierce

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Frank Herbert

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The statement fell short of an outright denial, leaving market fears free to grow.

Kevin Norrish

You cannot move on, when the prime minister remains in denial,

Charles Kennedy

Weather today is an increasing trend toward denial.

Chuck Palahniuk

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

MARK TWAIN

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

ANNIE BESANT