Gratification Quotes

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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it… — Lewis Thomas
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes... — Mark Twain
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it… — Eric Liu
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public… — Eric Liu
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be… — Russell Kirk
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. — Ambrose Bierce
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are… — Saint Augustine
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification. — Immanuel Kant
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. — Walter Russell
I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being… — Tom Baker
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the… — Walter Russell
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether… — Daniel Goleman
What's the difference between people who feel successful and people who feel they've failed? The answer is mindset: If you learn and grow from failure,… — Eben Pagan
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such… — Timothy Keller
Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the… — H. David Burton
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but I doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is ot… — M. Scott Peck
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification,… — Ezra Taft Benson
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you. — Jeff Bezos

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