Character Quote by Ronald H. Nash

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that…

— Steven Pressfield

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that…

— Michel de Montaigne

“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

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.…

— Thomas Mann

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

— Marcel Proust

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— Norah Vincent

“The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the…

— Howard Gardner

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when…

— David Hume

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a…

— Oscar Wilde