Gratification Quotes · Page 6

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

— Beatrice Webb

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

— Jesse Metcalfe

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

— Darren Hardy

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

— Maximillian Degenerez

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

— Matthieu Ricard

Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

— Squidward Tentacles

“She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

— Mitch McConnell

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for…

— Ellen Willis

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

— Greg Gutfeld

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our…

— David Jeremiah

Let's be clear about what people never say about Playboy on television. It was nothing more than an instrument for onanism. That's…

— Greg Gutfeld

Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use…

— Bertrand Russell

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by…

— Anonymous

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

“When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior…

— Ronald H. Nash

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual…

— Bill Bryson

...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater…

— Caitlin Moran

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch…

— Ann Radcliffe

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 could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office.…

— Henry Peter Brougham

“The problem of society today: An absolute lifestyle of entitlement. People gauge everything by "feeling", meaning whatever they feel like doing or…

— C. JoyBell C

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

— Krista Tippett

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Emily Bronte

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

— Jami Attenberg

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

— Alison Bechdel

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

— Jennifer O'Neill

Patience is a virtue in a world focused mostly on immediate results & instant gratification.

— Anonymous

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

— Cicely Tyson

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

— Katherine Ryan

“Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.”

— Epictetus

Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite.

— Tiffany Haddish

“I’ve heard of delayed gratification, but do you think we could get to the good stuff any time soon.” ”

— Devon Herrera