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Quotes About Control

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.
~ Dalai Lama
Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
~ William Shakespeare
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
~ Cato the Elder
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!
~ George Sweeting
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
~ Erich Fromm
Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
~ Dean Koontz
Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.
~ Muhammad
Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.
~ Roy Wilkins
Anger destroys your soul.
~ Marvin Gaye
Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.
~ Ruben Papian
Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.
~ Gautama Buddha
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
~ Carl Sandburg
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
~ Jonathan Edwards
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
~ Aristotle
Keep cool and you command everybody.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Anger - use it, but don't lose it!
~ Mr. T
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
~ Heraclitus
As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.
~ John Climacus
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
~ Sydney J. Harris
Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.
~ Jim Butcher