Gratification Quotes

256 quotes by 228 authors

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others â€“ not yourself â€“ first in how you handle and process them.… — John C. Maxwell
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate… — Joseph Paxton
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy… — Blaise Pascal
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I… — Carol Burnett
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own… — Steve Pavlina
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts… — Guru Nanak
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a… — Alfred Kazin
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms. — Hanna Rosin
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that… — Eric Balfour
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings.… — Madonna Ciccone
Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for. — Paul Shaffer
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge… — Bat for Lashes
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed… — Richard Lamm
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a… — Joe McNally
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be. — Maximillian Degenerez
I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place. — Steffan Rhodri
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg

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