Gratification Quotes

256 quotes by 228 authors

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an… — Helen Keller
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take… — Pope Francis
We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines?… — Joan Collins
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected… — Davy Crockett
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year. — Macaulay Culkin
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. — James Dean
Instant gratification takes too long. — Carrie Fisher
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to… — Taylor Hackford
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The gratification of desire is not happiness. — Daisaku Ikeda
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Helen Keller
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five… — Anne Lamott
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of… — Joseph Lancaster
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. — Michel de Montaigne
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time. — Josh Radnor
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't… — Jeremy Renner

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