Top 446 Gratification Quotes & Sayings

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Music is instant gratification in its purest form.

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.

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

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

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

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has made for the gratification of our nobler powers of intelligence and reason. He has given us reason to find out the truth, and the real design and true end of our existence.

I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a year. I get more gratification from that than putting a person in the Olympic Games. The Olympic athlete probably doesn't appreciate what you've done, but the other guy does. I think it's really rewarding.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.

I need instant gratification.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

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

There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification.

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

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

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

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.

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

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.

I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure.

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.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

Theatre is immediate gratification

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

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.