Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.
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.
I need instant gratification.
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.
Instant gratification takes too long.