Best 22 quotes in «delayed gratification quotes» category

Eating seeds is at times a sign of shortsightedness or impatience.

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

Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's through delayed gratification that patience comes.

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.

success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice

Without delayed gratification,there is no perseverance.

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

Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.

Without delayed gratification, there is no patience.

Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.

Without delayed gratification, there is no purposeful pursuit.

Lifetime regrets are more painful than delayed gratification.

Without delayed gratification, there is no power over self.

Without delayed gratification,there is no self- control.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

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.

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