Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society.

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Our need for instant gratification is the reason we’re drawn to liars and hot air blowers.

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.