A Quote by Sigmund Freud

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Austrian - Psychologist
May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Samuel Ullman

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

Paulo Coelho

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

Chris Hogan

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

Robert Breault

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

David Hume

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

Ferdinand Marcos

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

Aubrey de Grey

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.