Deferred Satisfaction Quotes

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter. Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.