life on planet earth on Delayed Gratification

[Maturity is] the ability to delay gratification. 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 t...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

My Aversion to Self-Help Books & Their Gurus but Why I Recommend This One! I am not one for “self-help” books. I know that I probably could use some more personal coaching advice, but… my habit ...

The blunt fact is that America's grand promotion of debt-leveraged consumerism has stood Max Weber's famous thesis about the rise of capitalism on its head. It has scorned the early-American s...

Because the results of God’s sovereignty are delayed, waiting remains an act of faith. We believe results will occur one day. By waiting on God, we affirm our belief in his providence. We trust his ti...

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more su...

We aim for happiness but we settle for pleasure…which is only momentary.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

I hope someday that God can explain some of the delays to us……but I’m convinced that one of the things He is teaching me, and all of us, is perseverance. In this day and age of everything being “insta...

There is an invisible pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens it. And the more heightened the desire, the greater our satisfaction will ultimately be. It ...

Joy’s trick is to supply Dry lips with what can cool and slake, Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache Nothing can satisfy.

Without the internet, we wouldn’t expect instant gratification as often as we do. Not just the ability to get online answers immediately, or same day delivery. Because of the internet, the anticipatio...

Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The oft-used front door to happiness is the one described by the advertising companies: acquire, retire, and aspire to drive faster, dress trendier, and drink more. Happiness depends on what you hang ...

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Learning to be satisfied with what we have rather than desiring more, more, more— this is the essence of joy.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

It isn’t easy to wait. It demands persistence when common sense says “give up.” It says “believe” when there is no present evidence to back it up. Faith is forged in delay. Character is forged in dela...

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease t...

Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.