Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

10.

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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 is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Voltaire

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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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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 sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Bataille, Georges

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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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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.