Immediate Pleasure Quotes

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

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.

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.