Ann Landers Quotes

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

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

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

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

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.

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

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.]

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

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

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 intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

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.

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

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

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

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

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.