As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing…

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you see someone…

— Michael E. DeBakey

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

— Macaulay Culkin

“Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this. I am passing the marshmallow test. I am…

— Ryan Holiday

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

— Greg Reid

Obviously, if I can win a fight that also pleases the fans, I'm even happier. But I'll take the win any way I can…

— Mauricio Rua

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

— Bobby Sherman

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

— Ian Bogost

“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the erosion of…

— Slavoj Žižek

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without…

— Hortense Odlum

For me, just the sheer fact that I get to act and do this for a living is enough personal gratification and individual fulfillment.…

— Lily Gladstone

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

— Matthieu Ricard

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

— Anonymous