Gratification Quotes · Page 7

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

— Jim Flaherty

Well, I've worked out for years. For a long time it was my only sense of gratification.

— Vin Diesel

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

— Frank Zappa

“Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.”

— S.I. Hayakawa

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

— Janet Guthrie

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Start by Thinking Your Way Out of the Instant Gratification Trap”

— Darren Hardy

We want instant gratification,but God does not work that way, we got to wait & be patient.

— Pastor Darryl L Godlock

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

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

— Brian Tracy

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest…

— Herman Melville

“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 more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell…

— Steven Pressfield

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without…

— Alan Watts

“The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden.”

— Germaine Greer

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they…

— Jim Barksdale

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance…

— Saint Augustine

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how…

— Anonymous

I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a…

— Arthur Lydiard

I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is…

— Curtis Jackson

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never…

— Neal Shusterman

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

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

— Macaulay Culkin

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

— Hanan Ashrawi

One moment of gratification is not worth a lifetime of being unhappy.

— Anonymous

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

— Michel de Montaigne

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

— Learned Hand

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

— M. Scott Peck

“The Gratification of life is a hand to hold;while walking over wobbling slippery rocks in life”

— Pooja Bhatia

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The greatest gratification I make while writing is that unique possibility of living my own adventures”

— MBarreto Condado

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

— Daniel Goleman

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

— William Blake

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

— George Bernard Shaw

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from…

— Mitch Kapor

“It dawned on me that my world was defined by accumulation, by the gratification of acquiring things, of seeing numbers go up…

— Leon Logothetis

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings…

— Alfred Kazin

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of…

— Anonymous