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Quotes About Control

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.
~ Susan Cain
Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.
~ Joe Dunthorne, Submarine
Anger should never be an overnight guest.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.
~ Kathleen Dowling Singh
Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Anger is short-lived madness.
~ Horace
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Anger is a brief lunacy.
~ Horace
Anger makes us all stupid.
~ Johanna Spyri
The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.
~ Joyce Meyer
Anger is a momentary madness.
~ Horace
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
~ Frank Moore Colby
When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.
~ Christopher Pike, Witch
Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he'd react, but he'd seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.
~ Derek Landy
Anger assists hands however weak.
~ Ovid
We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?
~ George Lakoff
Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
~ Patti LaBelle
Temperate anger well becomes the wise.
~ Philemon
Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.
~ William Shakespeare