Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

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

Bataille, Georges

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Little, Mary

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

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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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

11.

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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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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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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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lucretius

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

Seneca

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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Epictetus

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

Moliere

29.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Voltaire

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aristotle

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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Einstein, Albert

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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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 for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.