Gratification Quotes

Instant gratification takes too long. (Carrie Fisher)
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. View quote
James Dean
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. View quote
Anton LaVey
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. View quote
Aristotle
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. View quote
Mark Strand
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. View quote
Ellis Peters
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification. View quote
Greg Ginn
I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself. View quote
Trish Stratus
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. (Taylor Hackford)
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. View quote
Thomas Perry
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games. View quote
Gary Gygax
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones. View quote
Octavia Butler
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. View quote
F. R. Leavis
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior. View quote
Sarah Grimké
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment. (Terry Eagleton)
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. View quote
Donald Barthelme
Being in a material body means that we are eager to enjoy sense gratification and other imaginings of the false ego. Sickness can help raise us out of the bodily conception by putting us deeply into bodily suffering. Thus, sickness can be one of the greatest boons from God. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union. View quote
Eduard Hanslick