Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure…

It's not hard to sacrifice something for some one. But it's very hard to find someone who deserve your sacrifice.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others.”

— Dan Ariely

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

— Michael Pollan

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“What nobility of feeling!” he cried. “To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! Well, it is a thing, I confess,…

— Susanna Clarke

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never…

— Susanna Clarke

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous…

— Marquis de Sade

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem…

— Samuel Johnson

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

— Guy de Rothschild

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

— Izaak Walton

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

— Syd

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

— Rabelaise

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

— Denis Waitley