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The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.
I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.
Immediate gratification takes too long.
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
Meta-pleasures afforded to us by the exercise of our emotions.
The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? ... Offering others what you have to give.
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Delayed gratification helps you to do more, persistent and get better reward and greater profit.
Satisfaction involves an active pursuit- it is the emotional reward we get after adapting to a new situation or solving a novel problem.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
With great effort comes great gratification.
Not seeking acknowledgment for things done well but finding satisfaction in doing them well.
When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when "the sea flows in our veins ... and the stars are our jewels," when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?
A sacred spiritual-life is the greatest gratification
I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.
The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
A lonely impulse of delight
Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.
Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society
Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
covetousness. But,
Remorse-Regret that one waited so long to do it.
Satisfaction is transient - an interim state of mind.
Greed makes one want to get something he/she has not worked for
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
A satisfied need no longer motivates.
We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.
It's fun to give pleasure to people.
You get that air of satisfaction from achievement. It makes you feel good. We are only here for a very short time, and so you're crazy if you don't go out and try to milk it to the greatest extent you can.
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
We all have the need to feel special.
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
There is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, You are a poo.
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
To feel worthy, value others.
seeking completeness when we can only ever make each other better, more joyful, more grateful - but never complete.
Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right,
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.
After delayed gratification comes greater reward, better profit and greater glory.
Goals want to realize themselves.
People do things just 'cause everyone else does and then they wonder why they feel empty all the time.
People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.
For what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.
Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves.
I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.
Sigmund Freud said that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great. John
Guilt, the poor man's mind control.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Satisfaction comes from emptying ourselves into things.
Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.
To be contented - that's for the cows.
Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.
Without delayed gratification, goals are not achieved and objectives don't get accomplished.
Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.
Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.
A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.
Wants are never satiated. In fulfilling one desire, we neglect another.
It is so that these impious ones wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify their yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring them to their desired end, not by exhaustion but by attainment.
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
There is a hunger in every human being for approval.
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.
There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.
To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.
Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
What is a goal without a purpose?
Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.