It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification. — P. J. Tucker Copy Share Image
“I got over it, and I'm now a firm advocate of instant gratification. Carpe diem, Ana.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification. — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving… — Sharni Vinson Copy Share Image
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Being champion for me is gratification. The realisation that I am the best. Overall, I like being a leader, setting a good… — Kane Waselenchuk Copy Share Image
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Hellish and demoniac persons do not actually know what is the ultimate attainment in perfection, and therefore they think that sense gratification… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
“And so, beginning with the small early frustrations and deprivations, the child is helped to govern himself. his ego develops by learning… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, go on' you prod encouragingly. 'Well, just a small one then,' they say and dartingly take a small one, and then… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Most people give up on their dreams, goals, plans, give up in what they are doing, because they want instant gratification. Most… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“As I detailed in my TED Talk, I think we all have two main characters in our heads: a rational decision-maker (the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something. — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently” — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of gratification in seeing what one has never seen before, be it ever so little worth seeing;” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
