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Quotes About Self-control

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.
~ John Bytheway
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
~ Bam Margera
I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.
~ Jeff Lemire
Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
~ Mary J. Blige
It's taking all the self-control I've got to keep my hands off you. Don't play games with me, sweetheart. It's too easy for you to torture me, and I'm at my limit. To put to rest any doubts you might have…I'm jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I'm jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I'm jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Let us don our armor of control."-Lady Berwick
~ Lisa Kleypas
Take your bath, pet," he finally managed to say. "You're safe from me tonight. I may look, but I won't touch. Go on.
~ Lisa Kleypas
For the first time in his life, he was beginning to recognize that true passion was not easily satisfied, that there was a difference between the needs of his cock and the organ that resided two feet above it. It was not a welcome discovery.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Too much thinking will excite the sparks of vice.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You really should discard your inhibitions,' he said. 'They could get in the way of yielding to temptation.
~ Lisa Kleypas
My body is my own, to be shared or withheld as I choose.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Oh, dear," she said, staring into her nearly empty cup. "Did I drink all of that?" Nick took the cup from her and set it on the table. "I'm afraid so." "Only you could undo my years of training at Maidstone's in one evening," she said, making him grin. His gaze lowered to her mouth, and he traced the edge of her jaw with his fingertip. "Are you completely corrupted now? No? Then let's go home, and I'll finish the job.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I can protect you against everything except myself." - Derek
~ Unknown
Don't let your tongue be your worst enemy. —John Franzese CHAPTER
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
~ Lisa See
They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You're being punished by your anger.
~ Lisa See
I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I
~ Unknown
shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.
~ Unknown
Don't let the bad get in you. Don't open the door to it, no matter how much it comes knockin' or how sweet it sounds askin'.
~ Unknown
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.
~ Unknown
There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
You see, I could no longer be trusted around beautiful things and my weakness was apparent
~ Unknown
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith