Gratification Quote by Michio Kaku

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.

— Joachim de Posada

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield…

— Michio Kaku

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is…

— Peter Blair Henry

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

— Brian Tracy

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the…

— Brian Tracy

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

— M. Scott Peck

…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,…

— Daniel Goleman

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable,…

— Jonathan Sacks

“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young and healthy,…

— Atul Gawande

“The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in…

— Michio Kaku

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without…

— Hortense Odlum