The ability to delay gratification has implications not…

“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

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

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

— M. Scott Peck

…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal,…

— Daniel Goleman

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

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

— Brian Tracy

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

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

— Jonathan Sacks

If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for…

— David Nabarro

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we…

— Rick Warren

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

— Greg Gutfeld

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

— Mike Murdock

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is…

— M. Scott Peck

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is…

— Northrop Frye