Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

“Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.”

— Jon Meacham

Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is critical to…

— Chip Espinoza

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

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

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

— Helen Keller

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by…

— Helen Keller

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

“Revenge isn't a benefit, Lo. It’s self-gratification, an emotional response with very little logic and even less reward.”

— Anonymous

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

— Joseph Campbell

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

— Ariel Pink

Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association…

— Michael E. DeBakey

If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green…

— John Fire Lame Deer

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

— Mario Cuomo

“They live with the belief that anything is acceptable if you can get away with it, that self-gratification is the most important aspect of…

— R.A. Salvatore

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment,…

— Ezra Taft Benson