Gratification Quotes · Page 11

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

— Learned Hand

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

— Thomas Jefferson

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world…

— Gregor Mendel

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

— Jami Attenberg

Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better…

— Bob Myers

“The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her”

— Emily Bronte

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...

— Jennifer O'Neill

“You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.”

— Fay Weldon

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

— Charles Kennedy

There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all…

— Donna Farhi

We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain…

— Adam Jacobs

Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your…

— Greta Gerwig

We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions.…

— Joan Collins

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating…

— William Blake

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such…

— Thomas Hardy

I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other…

— Steve Grand

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.…

— Russell Kirk

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Michael E. DeBakey

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they…

— Henry Adams

Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the…

— Theodor Adorno

Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as…

— Albert Pike

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to…

— Hannah More

For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose…

— Selma Fraiberg

“Though we are addicted to instant gratification, we are seldom gratified because, although we are making everything possible now, we are seldom…

— Michael L. Brown

“I had no power of withdrawing my person from a disgustful society, in the most cheerful and valuable part of the day;…

— William Godwin

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

— Frank Zappa

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

— Joe Hill

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

— Radhanath Swami

“Whatever you think you do well, do it. There is nothing better than feeling gratified.”

— Mike McManus

“Before you get mad of someone, find something he\she did for you that deserve gratitude”

— Asmaa Dokmak

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

— Josh Radnor

“I got over it, and I'm now a firm advocate of instant gratification. Carpe diem, Ana.”

— E.L. James

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

— Quentin Crisp

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

— Wanda Sykes

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

— Walter Russell

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start…

— Anne Lamott

“True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose”

— Helen Keller