Quotes about Control
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
- James Allen
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
- Steve Jobs
If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
- Stephen Covey
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.
- St. John Chrysostom
Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.
- Charles Spurgeon
Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
- Henry Cloud
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
- David O. McKay
So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
- Marcus Aurelius
Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.
- Charles Swindoll
Don't lose your temper; use it.
- Dolly Parton
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
- Nelson Mandela