137 quotes about Anger



Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]
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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]
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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]
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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]
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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]
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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]
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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]
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Anger rest in the bosom of fools.
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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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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.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
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He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
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Go ahead, make my day.
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
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We boil at different degrees.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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.
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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
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Anger is a brief lunacy.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anger is short madness
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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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