Delayed Gratification Quotes

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

  Thomas Perry

  Patience, Reading, Hard Work

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• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  Zig Ziglar

  Workout, Fitness Motivational, Gym Motivational

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• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fitness, Workout, Giving Up

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• Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

  Charlie Munger

  Investing, Gratification, Delayed

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• 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

  Perseverance, Powerful, Disappointment

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• Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and 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

  Pain, Procrastination, Way To Live

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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

  Bill Bonner

  Long, Mark, Term

  Bill Bonner (2012). “Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• 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

  Love, Pain, Age

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.115, BookBaby

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

  James Dean

  Results, Gratification

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• 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

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

  Gregor Mendel

  Confidence, Believe In Yourself, Long

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• Instant gratification takes too long.

  Carrie Fisher

  Sarcastic, Women, Humor

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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

  Greg Gutfeld

  Later In Life, Delay, These Days

  Source: nation.foxnews.com

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• 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

  Running, Children, Honesty

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

  Joe Hill

  Giving Up, Attitude, Talking

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• 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

  Yoga, Mean, Class

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.6, Macmillan

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• 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

  Running, Morning, Parent

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