"success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice"
- Ken Poirot
"Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It’s that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspe..."
- Sandy Vaile
"Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust..."
- Sunday Adelaja
"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 the..."
- Neal Shusterman
"The memory of having sat at someone’s feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. I’m trying to fend off your admiration for me, you see, in order to save myself from your future contempt...."
- Sōseki Natsume
"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 th..."
- M. Scott Peck
"Delayed gratification is what makes a man."
"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
"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."
"Without delayed gratification, there is no patience."