Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

- Devi, Sri Sarada

Best Quotes about Pleasure

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Bataille, Georges

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Jerrold, Douglas William

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Bennett, Arnold

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Bagehot, Walter

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Mencken, H. L.

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Freud, Sigmund

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Seneca

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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

Byron, Lord

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

Keats, John

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Wilde, Oscar

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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Balzac, Honore De

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Addison, Joseph

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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Clinton, De Witt

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Moliere

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Selden, John

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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Drabble, Margaret

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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Lewis, C. S.

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Bonnard, Pierre

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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Barthes, Roland

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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]

Bible

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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Traherne, Thomas

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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Charron, Pierre

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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Devi, Sri Sarada

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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Lucretius

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Johnson, Samuel

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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De