Pleasant Quotes

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Nothing, Doubt, Hurts

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller

Life, Good, Sad

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

Age, Good, True

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Successful, Mind

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw

Heart, Broken, London

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

Morning, Care, Until

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

Father, Child, Sit

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs

Good, Computers, Hard

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire

Doubt, Condition, Absurd

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Death, Peaceful

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Young, Ten, Toes

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Hard, Person

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo

Someone, Action, Commit

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin

Work, Men, Daily

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life, Smile, Everything

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

Life, Success, Work

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

View, Buildings, Various

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal

End, Play, Last

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Epicurus

Life, Live, Living

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens

Human, Last, Baby

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot

Before, Rather, Lord

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

Best, Long, Through

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan

Happiness, Money, Bring

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good, May, Marriages

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon

Nothing, Variety

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Moliere

Annoying, Virtue, Vice

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace

Everyone, Useful, Approval

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