Quotes About Control

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

Anger is self-immolation.

It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.

Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.