Top 100 Quotes About Gratification
#1. There is an innate gratification in falling from grace, that the supreme pleasure of love is illicit love, a feeling that you are doing wrong.
Chloe Thurlow
#2. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology).
Richard Eyre
#4. Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
Questlove
#5. Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that came from knowing that one particular person was alive in the world
Jo Baker
#6. We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.
Terry Eagleton
#7. Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.
Bertrand Russell
#8. When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
Gene Simmons
#9. In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#10. A woman eats to feed her pussy. Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.
Pauline Kael
#12. He stopped trying hard when she praised him, she had noticed. Puritans understand the value of delayed gratification.
Lauren Groff
#13. Rich and very rich people have developed the discipline of delayed gratification. Millionaires do today what others don't, so they can have tomorrow what others won't.
Keith Cameron Smith
#14. If anyone wishes for entertainment, such as will prevent him feeling solitary even when he is alone, let me recommend the company of dogs, whose moral and intellectual qualities may almost afford delight and gratification.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#15. Medical training is relentlessly future-oriented, all about delayed gratification; you're always thinking about what you'll be doing five years down the line.
Paul Kalanithi
#16. Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.
Sunday Adelaja
#17. 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.
Ryan McGinley
#19. If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
David Ricardo
#20. 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.
James T. Rapier
#21. At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification.
Charlotte Bronte
#22. In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed."
"Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!"
"What a pity!" said Randall.
Georgette Heyer
#23. Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.
Hortense Odlum
#25. It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
Alison Bechdel
#26. The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.
Heather King
#27. Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
Jesse Metcalfe
#28. Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
Thorstein Veblen
#29. I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share
Quentin Crisp
#30. The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.
Wilhelm Reich
#31. The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
Reuben Fine
#32. But we must remember that, in a way, claiming all or too much responsibility is just another form of ego gratification.
Stephen Arterburn
#33. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
Ellen Willis
#34. The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God.
Chris Heimerdinger
#35. Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification - then you learn to value it differently.
Malcolm Gladwell
#36. One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.
Anonymous
#37. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#38. When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...
Jennifer O'Neill
#39. She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#40. One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Focus on miracles brings about self-gratification.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.
F.R. Leavis
#43. There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#44. I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.
Lorelei Linklater
#45. Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently
Norah Vincent
#46. Do not seek recognition or gratification from man - serve the Lord. He knows how to reward everyone
Sunday Adelaja
#47. We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.'
Tony Robbins
#48. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
Madonna Ciccone
#49. Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right,
Charles W. Colson
#50. The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
George Richards Minot
#51. I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!
Mary Hays
#52. Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
Joe Hill
#53. The living being is in the state of forgetfulness of his relation with God due to his being overly attracted to material sense gratification from time immemorial.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#54. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#55. The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.
Joachim De Posada
#56. People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.
Evan Bayh
#57. Without delayed gratification, goals are not achieved and objectives don't get accomplished.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
Jeff Bridges
#59. Our impatience is so implacable that, as actress-author Carrie Fisher quipped, even "instant gratification takes too long.
Carl Honore
#60. Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
Sylvester Stallone
#61. The trouble with instant gratification is, it takes too long.
David Morrell
#62. Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
Charles Kennedy
#63. In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
Radhanath Swami
#64. We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
Rod Parsley
#65. Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Thomas Perry
#66. There is an understandable aversion to risk, and a reluctance to plan too far ahead: the modern electorate wants instant gratification and simplistic, populist solutions.
Mungo MacCallum
#67. Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study.
John Henry Newman
#68. If love isn't embedded withing giving, then it would be best to never give at all, for love and giving is inseparable; they are one. Selfishness and self-gratification is not of love.
Aloy Ricketts
#69. Delayed gratification is one of the greatest virtues our nation and churches need to embrace.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.
Lake
Colleen Hoover
#71. Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.
Ralph Marston
#72. 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.
Ray Romano
#73. The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.
Alan Watts
#74. We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
Richard Schiff
#75. Why would someone cut out his heart?"
Michael shrugged. "Souvenir. Sexual gratification. Dinner.
Dean Koontz
#76. Seven key abilities human beings need to effectively manage life: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many
Gavin De Becker
#77. It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.
Michio Kaku
#78. The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden.
Germaine Greer
#79. Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.
Bob Myers
#80. One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'
Noam Chomsky
#81. 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.
Guru Nanak
#82. 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.
Julian Bond
#83. Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.
Bill Hybels
#84. Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.
S.I. Hayakawa
#85. 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.
William Henry Vanderbilt
#86. Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
Clive Sinclair
#87. 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.
Bob Newhart
#89. 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.
William Ellery Channing
#90. The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Greg Ginn
#91. I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
Rachel Cohn
#92. 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
#93. What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
Jean-Baptiste Say
#94. And Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody - some
Colin Dexter
#95. We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#96. If Amy had one ounce of romance in her soul, she would be sighing with gratification. Instead, she said acerbically, "All that's missing is the love poem."
Jermyn deposited her in a chair by the table. "I'll order a pen and ink for you.
Christina Dodd
#97. If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
Clayton Christensen
#98. All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.
Andrew Vachss
#99. Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.
S.I. Hayakawa
#100. The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her
Emily Bronte
