Gratification Quotes

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

— Sigmund Freud

With great effort comes great gratification.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Instant gratification takes too long.

— Carrie Fisher

All things come to those who wait,

— Violet Fane

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

— Jude Deveraux

“Immediate gratification takes too long.”

— Carrie Fisher

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

— James Dean

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

— Daisaku Ikeda

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

— Gregor Mendel

Good things take time. Instant gratification is instantly forgotten.

— Anonymous

“and Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody—some”

— Colin Dexter

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

— Richard Steele Sr

You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.

— Steve Arterburn

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

— Joseph Campbell

“I’ve heard of delayed gratification, but do you think we could get to the good stuff any time soon.” ”

— Devon Herrera

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

— Tiffany Haddish

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five…

— Questlove

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from…

— Thomas Keller

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my…

— Anonymous

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world…

— Gregor Mendel

We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain…

— Adam Jacobs

Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your…

— Greta Gerwig

“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…

— Charles F. Glassman

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term,…

— Brian Tracy

Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to…

— James E. Faust

Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its…

— Ian Bogost

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with…

— Anna Julia Cooper

…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of…

— Daniel Goleman

“Our culture tells us to want sex, pleasure, and instant gratification. Every hit song raves about it. Consumerism tells us that we…

— Michael J Heil

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie…

— Trish Stratus

There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all…

— Donna Farhi

“It’s just human psychological truth really. Anything acquired without effort and without cost investment of time and energy is generally unappreciated within…

— Scott Abel

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or…

— Samuel Johnson

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but…

— Hermann Hesse

You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that…

— Carrie Brownstein

Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits.…

— Michael E. DeBakey

“The problem of society today: An absolute lifestyle of entitlement. People gauge everything by "feeling", meaning whatever they feel like doing or…

— C. JoyBell C

“Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office.…

— Henry Peter Brougham

The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the…

— Theodor Adorno