Delayed Gratification Quotes

“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, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure, uncertain in its results, is given up, but only in order to gain in the new way an assured pleasure coming later. But the end psychic impression made by this substitution has been so powerful that it is mirrored in a special religious myth. The doctrine of reward in a future life for the—voluntary or enforced—renunciation of earthly lusts is nothing but a mythical projection of this revolution in the mind. In logical pursuit of this prototype, religions have been able to effect the absolute renunciation of pleasure in this life by means of the promise of compensation in a future life; they have not, however, achieved a conquest of the pleasure-principle this way. It is science which comes nearest to succeeding in this conquest; science, however, also offers intellectual pleasure during its work and promises practical gain at the end.”
― Sigmund Freud, General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

“success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice”
― Ken Poirot

“The surest sign of an adult is the ability to accept delayed gratification.”
― Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

“Incessantly demanding that I am given some ‘thing’ today may very well destroy the role that it was going to play in my life tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stressful conditions tax our cognitive bandwidth, reducing our ability to think clearly and exercise executive control. Stress also hurts our ability to make rational long-term decisions that require delayed gratification. Living in a community in which we feel a sense of trust and support acts as a buffer against the detrimental impact of scarcity. However, a higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“Without delayed gratification,there is no self- control.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Without delayed gratification, there is no power over self.”
― Sunday Adelaja

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

“After delayed gratification comes greater reward, better profit and greater glory.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Mischel’s next step made his studies iconic — he tracked the kids forward, seeing if marshmallow wait time predicted anything about their adulthoods . [...] Five-year-old champs at marshmallow patience averaged higher SAT scores in high school (compared with those who couldn’t wait). [...] Forty years post-marshmallow, they excelled at frontal function, had more PFC [Prefrontal cortex] activation during a frontal task, and had lower BMIs. A gazillion-dollar brain scanner doesn’t hold more predictive power than one marshmallow.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky

“Lifetime regrets are more painful than delayed gratification.”
― Dawn Graham, Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers - and Seize Success

“Introverts also seem better than extroverts at delaying gratification, a crucial life skill associated with everything from higher SAT scores and income to lower body mass index.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Without delayed gratification, there is no patience.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Without delayed gratification,there is no perseverance.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Without delayed gratification, there is no purposeful pursuit.”
― Sunday Adelaja

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

“Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh.”
― Sunday Adelaja

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

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

“While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.”
― Amy Simpson, Blessed Are the Unsatisfied: Finding Spiritual Freedom in an Imperfect World

“The best thing you can do is delay gratification.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Eating seeds is at times a sign of shortsightedness or impatience.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being poor or broke is made to seem worse than it is by the myth that we need to eat three meals a day.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Delayed gratification is the basis of euphoria.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“I would rather make choices that strip me of what I ‘want’ because those are the choices that will give me what I ‘need.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Even when I get out of my own way, I'm still not getting anywhere. I've spent my life waiting for marshmallows and they didn't give me any.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov