You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
