Immediate gratification takes too long.

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

— Anonymous

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

— Matthieu Ricard

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

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

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

“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

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

The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was…

— Hermann Hesse

“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience…

— Erik Pevernagie

I definitely think we're living in a world or generation where we need constant gratification and adoration with Instagram and likes, and we base…

— Colleen Ballinger

“They therefore have no opportunity to suffer the interval between desire and gratification which the less privileged endure, and which, for all its apparent…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Henry Peter Brougham

All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation…

— Thomas Merton

While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes…

— Dan Pallotta

“We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough