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

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 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

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

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Aristotle

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

Bataille, Georges

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Seneca

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Voltaire

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

Billings, Josh

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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

24.

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

Bible

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

Moliere

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

32.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

36.

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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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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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Charron, Pierre

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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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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

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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