Gratification Quotes
We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.
I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.
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.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.