Quotes About Delaying Gratification

#1. Delaying gratification is one of the most rewarding human pleasures. In almost all cases, the anticipation of an enjoyable experience is as pleasurable as the experience itself.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#2. Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

M. Scott Peck

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

Daniel Goleman

#4. Delaying gratification is difficult.

David Eagleman

#5. In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances, risks, and opportunities.

Julie K. Norem

#6. Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. She said softly, "You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live."
He didn't have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss.
So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night.

Sarah J. Maas

#8. The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Angela Y. Davis

#9. I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.
Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes?

Katherine Applegate

#10. The sand whispered, Be separate, the stones taught me, Be hard.

Stanley Kunitz

#11. I believe that all men and women will be saved.

Pat Buckley

#12. She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

Garth Stein

#13. Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

Mason Cooley

#14. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart scent that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds shaped like true-love hearts.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Tasha Alexander