Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Billings, Josh

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

Drabble, Margaret

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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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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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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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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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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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 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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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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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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 greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Moliere

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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