Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later. — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.… — Russell Kirk 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
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
We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to… — Henry Kett Copy Share Image
The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
“... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization. — Radhanath Swami 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
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“In this day and age, there is a limitless plethora of readily available distractions just waiting to take your mind off what… — James Frankton Copy Share Image
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“We’re a “rational” species—at least that’s what we tell ourselves. So why are we so irrationally enslaved by so many bad habits?… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification,… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
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