Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Pleasure

People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Proust, Marcel

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bataille, Georges

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

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

Moliere

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Little, Mary

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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Butler, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Bible

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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Billings, Josh

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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 that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita

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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo