Delayed Gratification Quotes

Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It’s that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.

~ Sandy Vaile

Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

~ Neal Shusterman

The memory of having sat at someone’s feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. I’m trying to fend off your admiration for me, you see, in order to save myself from your future contempt. I prefer to put up with my present state of loneliness rather than suffer more loneliness later. We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It’s the price we pay for these times of ours.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

~ M. Scott Peck

Delayed gratification is what makes a man.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without delayed gratification, there is no patience.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It's through delayed gratification that patience comes.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without delayed gratification,there is no perseverance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Remember how it feels, Silent One. That murderous rage, and how it makes your blood boil. Remember, and let it carry you the rest of the way—only, learn to freeze it, as well, because the best killers are those who can put their desires on ice.

~ Nenia Campbell

Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.

~ Sunday Adelaja