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• I want to kiss you.” Jace’s whisper pulled me from my thoughts and I glanced up to find his eyes blazing with raw need. “Just because Marc won’t touch you doesn’t mean I shouldn’t. Right? I don’t have that kind of self-control, and honestly, I don’t see the point in it. Are you supposed to be impressed by how long we can go without touching you? ’Cause if that’s the game we’re playing, I think I’d rather lose.

  Rachel Vincent

  Mean, Eye, Kissing

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.64, MIRA

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• Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Winning, Self, Stupidity

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• I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.

  Walter Mischel

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Self, Lines

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.70, Anchor

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• To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.

  Robert Greene

  Self, Games, Succeed

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.152, Profile Books

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• But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.

  Jean M. Auel

  Determination, Son, Men

  Jean M. Auel (2013). “The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves”, p.665, Bantam

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• Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

  Wilhelm Frick

  Years, Self, Genius

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007, March 10, 1946.

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• When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it.

  Anthony Pettis

  Dad, Self, Skills

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• You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

  Joyce Meyer

  Emotional, Doors, House

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• Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

  James Allen

  Self, Mastery, A Man Thinketh

  James Allen (2014). “As You Think - A New Thought Classic for Today's Woman”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

  Catherine Weaver

  Patience, Thinking, Self

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• We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

  Robert B. Parker

  Growing Up, Self, Iron

  "Promised land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.

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• Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Honesty

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• Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Self, Giving

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.

  Linda S. Reeves

  Loss, Self, Feelings

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• All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

  Harvey Weinstein

  Thinking, Self, Issues

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• Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Motivation, Stress, Compassion

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, 2012.

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• Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

  Ricky Martin

  Powerful, Teaching, Simple

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". 208.94.232.188.

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• So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Self

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.284, Penguin

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• Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

  Claudia Gray

  Self, Cookies, Enough

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• Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

  Eileen Caddy

  Answers

  Eileen Caddy (2017). “God Spoke to Me”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, World, Comfort

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• Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

  James Buchan

  Night, Men, Self

  "Lifting the veil". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

  Philip Massinger

  Success, War, Positivity

  1623 The Bondman, act1, sc.3.

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• I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Self, Wipe, Fists

  "Circus of the Damned". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, May, 1995.

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