America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay…

…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

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

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

Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of…

— Margaret Bondfield

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

— Anthony de Mello

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

— George Santayana

At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a…

— Os Guinness

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

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

— 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

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 believed that what mattered to God was the direction I was facing not how far away I was. Sin it seemed to me…

— Sara Wheeler

“It is not possible to understand original sin without reference to the fullness of givenness – that is, love. Original sin is a refusal…

— Pope Saint John Paul II

“..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