Life Quote by Michio Kaku

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

— Brian Tracy

“Most of us don’t respond well to delayed gratification; we are much more interested in immediate rewards. This is why we procrastinate, fail to…

— Uri Gneezy

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

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

— Marcel Proust

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

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

— Norah Vincent

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

— Daniel Goleman

“Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.”

— Epictetus

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

— Joe Hill

“I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when”

— John Green

“There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom…

— Susan Wells Bennett