Gratification Quotes

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.

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

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.

With great effort comes great gratification.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

Delayed gratification is what makes a man.

It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.

Without delayed gratification, there is no patience.