Quotes & Sayings About Delayed Gratification

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be. — Maximillian Degenerez

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

Whatever happened to delayed gratification?" "I got over it, and I'm now a firm advocate of instant gratification. Carpe diem, Ana," he whispers. — E.L. James

There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath. — Donna Farhi

Without delayed gratification, goals are not achieved and objectives don't get accomplished. — Sunday Adelaja

Remember how it feels, Silent One. That murderous rage, and how it makes your blood boil. Remember, and let it carry you the rest of the way - only, learn to freeze it, as well, because the best killers are those who can put their desires on ice. — Nenia Campbell

You know what they say; all good things come to those who wait." "Never is a very long time to wait." He chuckled. "There's a lot to be said for delayed gratification, you know. Given half a chance, I'd delay yours for a very long time - hours maybe." "That's — Victoria Vane

Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion. — H. David Burton

Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. It knows we can't sustain that level of intensity. We will hit the wall. We will crash.
The professional, on the other hand, understands delayed gratification. He is the ant, not the grasshopper; the tortoise, not the hare ... The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. He knows that any job, whether it's a novel or kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality. — Steven Pressfield

He stopped trying hard when she praised him, she had noticed. Puritans understand the value of delayed gratification. — Lauren Groff

Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right, — Charles W. Colson

Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God. — Sunday Adelaja

Delayed gratification."
"Yeah, it makes things sweeter."
"Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour. — Dean Koontz

After delayed gratification comes greater reward, better profit and greater glory. — Sunday Adelaja

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering. — Sunday Adelaja

Delayed gratification is what makes a man. — Sunday Adelaja

Delayed gratification helps you to do more, persistent and get better reward and greater profit. — Sunday Adelaja

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

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination. — Richard Lamm

It's through delayed gratification that patience comes. — Sunday Adelaja

Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children. — Bill Hybels

Delayed gratification is one of the greatest virtues our nation and churches need to embrace. — Sunday Adelaja

Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance. When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what TV commercials and pop materialist culture have been brainwashing us to do from birth. Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product. Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce. — Steven Pressfield

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life. — Greg Gutfeld

Delayed gratification leads to patience. — Sunday Adelaja

Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together. — Matthew Kelly

Besides ... anticipation is the key to seduction, and right now, I'm really into delayed gratification. — E.L. James

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

Delayed gratification is making a choice, constantly convincing yourself to hold back and pursuing immediate gain or profit. — Sunday Adelaja

The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc. — Michio Kaku

Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society. — Sunday Adelaja

Ivy still had her tree up in the living room, and we exchanged presents when we felt like it, not on a specific date. Usually that was about an hour after I got back from shopping. Delayed gratification was Ivy's thing, not mine. — Kim Harrison

Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution.

It's that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides. — Sandy Vaile

Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product. — Steven Pressfield

To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart. — John Ortberg

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

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification. — Charlie Munger

Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh. — Sunday Adelaja

I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when — John Green

The harder it was to get, the more you want to keep it. — Jay Mark Mateo Balmes

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry

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

Delayed gratification the ability to control yourself or restrain yourself from getting an instant benefit. — Sunday Adelaja

Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers. — Tom DeMarco

Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being. — Sunday Adelaja

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later. — Joe Hill

It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success. — Anthony Famiglietti

Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence. — Sunday Adelaja

One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth. — Sunday Adelaja

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now. — Neal Shusterman