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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
Life
Work
Hard Work
Respect
Perseverance
Sacrifice
Dedication
Football
Self-Denial
Like
Authority
Requires
Hard
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vince Lombardi
Love
Sacrifice
Dedication
Fearlessness
Mental
Mental Toughness
Toughness
Self-Denial
Qualities
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de Balzac
Art
Mom
Motherhood
Too
Detail
Finds
Silent
Minute
Self-Denial
Involves
Devotion
Which
Much
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner
Good
Son
Father
Father's Day
Enterprise
He
Part
Wisely
Self-Denial
Does
Judicious
His
Encourage
Prudent
Expenditure
Skill
Productive
Good Father
Believes
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
Life
Christ
Dissolution
Everything
Finding
Delight
Through
Divine
He
Self-Denial
Look
Material
Dear
Dear Friend
His
Friend
Did
Being
Mankind
Full
Satisfaction
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen
Eyes
Country
Our
Restore
Voices
Self-Deception
Self-Denial
Loosen
Greatness
Gag
Tear
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Freedom
Dignity
Denial
Collective
Own
Society
Our
Both
Individual
Self-Denial
Vulnerable
Becomes
Deny
Human
Human Dignity
Poor
Capacity
Choice
Levels
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
Caroline Knapp
Culture
Cheese
Dairy
Honestly
Our
Visible
Would
Cases
Cottage
Self-Denial
Most
Caution
Labels
Substance
Warning
Appear
Symbols
If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.
Clive Sinclair
Father
Live
State
Criticise
Someone
He
Self-Denial
Like
Policies
Because
Israeli
Chooses
Prepared
Jew
Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment.
Ella Woodward
Healthy
Punishment
Eating
About
Self-Denial
Supposed
I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.
James McGreevey
Family
You
Problem
Denial
Nurturing
Community
Think
Sick
Loathing
Self
Part
Self-Denial
Self-Loathing
Up
Very
Closet
Being
Happens
Place
Which
Loving
Mean
Separate
Growing
Keep
Growing Up
Conscience
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
John Sterling
Education
Best
Better
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Worst
Self-Denial
Than
Which
Teaches
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
Julie Burchill
Myself
People
Pleasure
Over
Self-Denial
Because
Get
Choose
Include
Fat
The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).
Louis MacNeice
God
Thank God
Men
Thinking
Too
Other
Atom
About
Having
Crowd
Individualist
Self-Denial
Himself
Am
Thank
Often
Communist