Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Pleasure

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Moliere

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Drabble, Margaret

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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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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Seneca

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Lucretius

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Voltaire

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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