Gratification Quotes

“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”
― Eileen Caddy, Opening Doors Within

“Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“One important thing that you have to remember is that the human brain is always looking for instant gratification and instant results which is why many of us end up spending more budget on making our office or store prettier rather than on marketing.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.”
― Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

“Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.”
― Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

“Whatever you think you do well, do it. There is nothing better than feeling gratified.”
― Mike McManus

“Before you get mad of someone, find something he\she did for you that deserve gratitude”
― Asmaa Dokmak, You are Unique: Live your life as it suits you

“If you are not Grateful, you are definitely going to be a great fool.”
― Olawale Daniel

“The idea that America is one great shopping mall, and that all anyone wants to do is, you know, grasp their credit card and run out and buy stuff is a stereotype, and it’s a generalization but, but but as a way to summarize a certain kind of ethos in the U.S., it’s pretty accurate. [...] Language like that, the wounded inner child, the inner pain, is part of the kind of pop psychological movement in the, in the United-States, that is a sort of popular Freudianism, that, that has its own paradox which is that the more we are thought to list and resent the things of which we were deprived as children, the more we live in that anger and frustration and the more we remain children. For young people in America, there are very mixed messages from the culture, that, there is a streak of moralism in American life that extol the virtues of being grown up and having a family and being a responsible citizen, but there is also the sense of… of . Do what you want, Gratify your appetites because of … of when I’m a corporation appealing to the parts of you that are selfish and self-centered and want to have fun all the time is the best way to sell you things, right?” ZDF German Television Interview”
― David Foster Wallace

“Patience is for peasants!" the queen yelled. "Instant gratification is the only gratification for the powerful!”
― Chris Colfer, Worlds Collide

“Getting what you want isn't instant gratification. It's a slow pulling apart, a realignment of bones and sinew. There are aches involved. There is bruising.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

“Their well-prepared passion had finally reached maturity through that which tends to deaden passions: gratification.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“I would rather make choices that strip me of what I ‘want’ because those are the choices that will give me what I ‘need.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s gratification in abstaining from the easy choice. Instant gratification can bring more suffering than pleasure. If I do the hard thing, the next time I face a similar situation it’s not that hard anymore.”
― Cecily Wang, No Crying in the Operating Room: My Life as an International Relief Doctor, from Haiti, to South Sudan, to the Syrian Civil War

“I can tell you there is nothing more profound than the dark, nothing more gratifying, because it's the moments we identify our true congruence and purpose in life.”
― Dark Night Beacon

“Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“Until now Psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification, but VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION is the latest to take over, Beware!”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“Willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so you can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“If an idea does not enhance the lives of those around us, it’s just a way that the mind is trying to figure out how to gratify itself while looking brilliant enough so that no one suspects otherwise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stop seeking gratification and adversity won’t bother you anymore.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“If you work hard now and postpone instant gratification and play very little; then time will come when everybody will be working very hard and wondering how comes you enjoy life, work a little and play very hard.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Hedonism is based on the illusion that what we enjoy inevitably leaves us in joy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are a society that values outward proof more than inward gratification.”
― Samara O'Shea, Loves Me... Not: How to Survive (and Thrive!) in the Face of Unrequited Love

“The best way to end up having nothing is to get everything that you want.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Delayed gratification is the basis of euphoria.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“Deception is the mind attempting to outwit itself in order to gratify itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We often seek immediate financial gratification through labor, unaware of the immense wealth-generating potential that lies in knowledge and informed decision-making. By cultivating their intellectual capacity and making conscious choices, they can unlock a pathway to greater financial prosperity and personal fulfillment.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, Science Behind A Perfect Life

“I get a sick satisfaction out of watching someone think they are right only to be proven wrong by cold hard facts. I never get an apology, but the sweet gratification of watching them fix that stupid look on their fugly face helps me sleep at night.”
― Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays