Life has become fast and demanding and gardening reminds you to relax, postpone gratification and anticipate pleasure.

The seemingly imperturbable stock market, strong confidence in the economy and the ease of borrowing all make consumers feel richer and less inclined to postpone gratification.

As an educator, I discovered that most children learn how to postpone gratification by the age of 10.

As your child becomes more comfortable with postponing gratification, you can shift to longer, more complex projects.

I can postpone gratification but I treat myself as well as I can.

They are greedy little--well, they might have been willing to postpone immediate gratification for longer-range riches.

A central part of growing up to responsible adulthood is learning to postpone gratification.

They don't want to postpone gratification and they want the good life at a young age.

Republicans, on the other hand, now face the problem of a radical base that has lost its willingness to postpone gratification.

He was a moralist, a low-church hard-pew Baptist, a devotee of facing hard truths and postponing gratification.