The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando 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
I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place. — Steffan Rhodri Copy Share Image
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When things start becoming second nature, I get a little paranoid because I feel like maybe my craft isn't evolving. I get… — Eugene Souleiman Copy Share Image
... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its… — Ian Bogost 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
“The harmony of two bodies expressed in this single touch, bridging their differences and bending their moral reserve, was as powerful and… — Peter Nadas 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
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
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
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. — Brian Tracy 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
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. — Michel de Montaigne 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
Well, I've worked out for years. For a long time it was my only sense of gratification. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“If you are not Grateful, you are definitely going to be a great fool.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place. — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
