Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Drabble, Margaret

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Bonnard, Pierre

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lucretius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

11.

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

Bible

12.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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 object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Aristotle

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

Moliere

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

Seneca

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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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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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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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 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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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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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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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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 is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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