28 Quotes About Instant-gratification

I often say, sex speaks to the immediate (need for instant gratification—finite pleasure), but sensuality speaks to the ultimate (need for limitless pleasure).

Don’t forgo your long-term dreams to satisfy your short-term desires.

Everlasting pain is often caused by the pursuit of fleeting pleasure.

Being poor or broke is made to seem worse than it is by the myth that we need to eat three meals a day.

Enslavement to God signifies liberation from all other forms of servitude, and although modern man may think that he is liberated, he is in fact a slave to his desires... He is ‘addicted’ to hoarding wealth, sex, violence, intoxicants and so on. But above all, he is often seduced by the capitalist system that tends to work through the invention of false needs, which he feels must be satisfied instantly.

Entrepreneurs should always aim to play the long game. Instant gratification cannot build a legacy.

It's a choice to occasionally let go of the urge to feel good in an instant in favor of the long-term goal of shaping our internal state and character which will eventually translate into a good quality of life.

The worst temptation is instant gratification.

Unfortunately, we live in an instant Jell-O society, with everybody wanting microwaved success. So as you look at truth therapy to combat the lies you tell yourself, don't go overboard with your expectations. Remember to lighten up and put your party hat on every now and then. Celebrate the little steps . . . as well as the significant milestones.