…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is…

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many…

— Joyce Meyer

“Identity claims are either directed toward others or directed at the self, and both kinds have their own psychological functions.”

— Sam Gosling

“(Couch potatoes) are not the people likely to cause an epidemic of goal-directed actions in their immediate vicinity." Amtower”

— Mark Amtower

I think a great leader is somebody who realizes it's not about them, it's about the people that they're serving, that they're really other-directed…

— Ken Blanchard

Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all…

— Frederick The Great

“Wiener and Rosenblueth showed that purposeful, goal-directed behaviour can be seen in organisms and machines, and that it operates through what is known as…

— Matthew Cobb

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable,…

— Jonathan Sacks

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay…

— Michio Kaku

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

— M. Scott Peck

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.

— Joachim de Posada

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is…

— Peter Blair Henry

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield…

— Michio Kaku

“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young and healthy,…

— Atul Gawande