Delayed Rewards Quotes

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

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

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

All good things to those who wait.

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.

We are not able to sacrifice our short term interests for the sake of the long term.

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

When you get too much, too quickly, too easily, you don't learn to fight.

My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

No effort is ever wasted, although some pay dividends later than you think. Do not imagine that you "wasted your time" because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as "waste" in the Universe. Everything - everything - yields benefit. It's true. And your life will show you this. So don't decry the "effort that failed." All things lead to your highest good. You just may not know it yet.