Delayed gratification Quote by John Green

“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay…

— Michio Kaku

“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently”

— Norah Vincent

“Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?”

— Aldous Huxley

“Immediate gratification takes too long.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Devon Herrera

“Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.”

— Epictetus

“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.”

— Édouard Levé

“How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.”

— Marcel Proust

“Instant gratification has replaced true happiness. The problem with this is that instant gratification is very short lived, and the next thing you know…

— Jennifer O'Neill

“I realized that the antidote to impatience was allowing myself to reenter the flow of things, that is, to be in sync with the…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”

— Aldous Huxley

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

— Daniel Goleman