(33 quotes found)
“Instant gratification takes too long.”
Carrie Fisher
“Instant gratification is not soon enough.”
Meryl Streep
“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”
Ellis Peters
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
Contributed by: Dave Cohen
Maxwell Maltz
“There's nothing like the instant gratification of digging your hands in the dirt to create something beautiful.”
Dagny Robertson
“The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification, or are putting pressure on for some kind of sexual gratification, when a 6-year-old doesn't have that capacity.”
Christopher Murray
“Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification”
Carl Henry
“It's cheaper for companies to buy production and reserves on Wall Street than go drill for it. It's instant gratification.”
Fadel Gheit