Delayed Gratification

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is love for the long haul; it is bearing up under difficult circumstances, without giving up or giving in to bitterness. Patience means working when gratification is delayed. It means taking ...

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

[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...