Conquer Quote by Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them…

— Samuel Johnson

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that…

— Henry Benjamin Whipple

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

— Anonymous

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life…

— Emile Durkheim

“A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. How miserable must be the lives of those folk who labor so…

— Seneca

“There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order…

— Tom Robbins

Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who…

— Norm MacDonald

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

— Willard Gaylin

Greater joy and fulfillment is found in the persistent struggle to contribute to others happiness.

— Senora Roy

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault