Gratification Quotes

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

~ Santiago Ramón Y Cajal

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.

~ Jeet Thayil

In these days of instant gratification and electronic wizardry there are still some people, real people, who do not panic when their telephones fail because the batteries need re-charging. Instead they plug, not into an electronic device but into the earth, feel the wind in their hair, listen to the joyous, constant reaffirmation of running water and feel the good sun or refreshing rain on their skin. They, and only they, can be truly re-charged.

~ Anonymous

Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

~ Charles F. Glassman

We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things that are making them. So if we’re going to truly live well, maybe the first thing we need to decide is who’s deciding.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

~ Bernadette Mcdonald

Without delayed gratification, goals are not achieved and objectives don’t get accomplished.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is impossible to satisfy self. Self always wants more and more. It is an ugly monster that will devour you if you don't devour it. Stop feeding it an watch the pressure be released. Self deprivation is much more fulfilling than self gratification. Who Knew?

~ Randa Manning-Johnson

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our self control and patience, which allows us to delay gratification and build anticipation. Letting desire build is an abstract way to achieve balance and moderation in your life... Moderation just may be the answer to boredom - go figure! -- pg 145-146

~ Cristin Frank

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

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand, gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

~ Eileen Caddy

Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they choose to make space for it. While outer conditions may stimulate the feeling of happiness, it can never come from anywhere other than within us. Authentic happiness isn't something we can go out and get, buy, borrow, or steal. Nor can any form of artificial sensory stimulus generate true happiness; it's only something we can be, and it's a choice we make with every breath we take.

~ Dennis Merritt Jones

When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.

~ Anthony Liccione

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

~ Anne Brontë

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

~ Erik Pevernagie

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

Immediate gratification is a dream killer.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.

~ Ashish Patel

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

Until now Psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification, but VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION is the latest to take over, Beware!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Discipline is when we delay our gratifications.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Instant gratification takes too long.

~ Carrie Fisher