Gratification Quotes

256 quotes by 228 authors

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away. — Jim Flaherty
I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used… — Montel Williams
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms… — Andrew Vachss
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place. — Brian O'Driscoll
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results… — Gregor Mendel
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could… — Ellen Willis
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. — Ellis Peters
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such… — George Combe
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would… — David Ricardo
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The… — Richard Schiff
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily… — A. S. Byatt
Where there is an ongoing relationship of caring. Where there is a sense of humor. Where there is a sense of mutual mercy. Where there… — William Swing
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it — Richard Steele Sr
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and… — Jim Barksdale
Okay, if you want magic youve got it. But its going to be a much different journey than youve been promised by the instant-gratification-salesmen. .… — Ruben Papian
It saddens me so many ppl only do or say some act of kindness because it makes them look or feel better! The seek some… — Suzanne McDonald
What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there… — Babloo

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