It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
“Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans. — Bobby Sherman Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something. — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently” — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We want people on the Internet to go to Imgur for their viral image fix. And what's so awesome about images vs.… — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't… — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
I definitely think we're living in a world or generation where we need constant gratification and adoration with Instagram and likes, and… — Colleen Ballinger Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in… — Chris Hesse Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
“And so, beginning with the small early frustrations and deprivations, the child is helped to govern himself. his ego develops by learning… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people give up on their dreams, goals, plans, give up in what they are doing, because they want instant gratification. Most… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of gratification in seeing what one has never seen before, be it ever so little worth seeing;” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
