Quotes about anger

"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."

Clarendon on anger   

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

Colby, Frank Moore on anger
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"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."

Colton, Charles Caleb on anger
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"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Confucius on anger
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Congreve, William on anger
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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."

Curtis, George William on anger   

"He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins"

Dhammapada on anger   

"Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat."

Dickinson, Emily on anger
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"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."

Diller, Phyllis on anger
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"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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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."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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"Go ahead, make my day."

Eastwood, Clint on anger
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"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."

Edwards, Tryon on anger
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"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"We boil at different degrees."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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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."

Epictetus on anger
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"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

Francis De Sales, St. on anger
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"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

Franklin, Benjamin on anger
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"The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture."

Freud, Sigmund on anger
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"Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm."

Fuller, Thomas on anger   

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind."

Fuller, Thomas on anger   

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

Fuller, Thomas on anger
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

Gandhi, Indira on anger
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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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."

Gaulle, Charles De on anger
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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

Gracian, Baltasar on anger   

"Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge."

Gregory The Great, St. on anger   

"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."

Halifax, Edward F. on anger   

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

Halifax, Edward F. on anger   

"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

Harris, Sidney J. on anger
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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."

Henry, M. on anger   

"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."

Hillard, G. S. on anger   

"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

Horace on anger   

"Anger is a brief lunacy."

Horace on anger
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on anger
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"Anger is short madness"

Horace on anger
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"My liver swells with bile difficult to repress."

Horace on anger   

"Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score."

Hull, Bobby on anger