Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
“She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. — Jesse Metcalfe 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
Gratification comes from contributing what you want to contribute without looking to see what others contribute or not. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving… — Sharni Vinson Copy Share Image
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Revenge isn't a benefit, Lo. It’s self-gratification, an emotional response with very little logic and even less reward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck 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
There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment.… — Eustace Conway Copy Share Image
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Being champion for me is gratification. The realisation that I am the best. Overall, I like being a leader, setting a good… — Kane Waselenchuk Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Hellish and demoniac persons do not actually know what is the ultimate attainment in perfection, and therefore they think that sense gratification… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
“Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this. I am passing the marshmallow test.… — Ryan Holiday 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
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had no power of withdrawing my person from a disgustful society, in the most cheerful and valuable part of the day;… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.” — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
“we learned to savor the denial of gratification—that most un-American of pleasures!—” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place. — Steffan Rhodri Copy Share Image
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“I like instant gratification. It’s like instant coffee, only it won’t keep you up all night.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
