“wrong. Instant gratification does not usually bring long-term peace. Our peace comes because of foundational things in our spirit and not by… — Shannon A. Scott Copy Share Image
“THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES IS THAT LIES DO GIVE IMMEDIATE SENSE GRATIFICATION AND THAT IS WHY IT IS EVER ACCEPTED BY THE… — DAVID OKAFOR Copy Share Image
“At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a… — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
I believe the desire for instant gratification is the most destructive force in the world today. It's time to grow up! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor.… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
