The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
I need instant gratification.
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
Instant gratification takes too long.