Quotes About Gratification

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

Take It and Like It

Do you live to eat or eat to live?

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The less the value of work is seen to lie either in what it produces, or the benefits it provides to others, the more work comes to be seen as valuable primarily as a form of self-sacrifice, which means that anything that makes that work less onerous or more enjoyable, even the gratification of knowing that one's work benefits others, is actually seen to lower its value—and as a result, to justify lower levels of pay.

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

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We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.

With great effort comes great gratification.

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.