Talk:Anger

Buddha:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with intent of throwing its at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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• We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
  • Alfred Adler

• 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. ·
  • Akhenaton

• Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
  • Akhenaton

• Anger turns to hatred,hatred is all consuming,control your anger or it will control you.
  • Jason Ard

• To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy. ·
  • Aristotle

• 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 — that is not easy.
  • Aristotle

• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it?
  • Marcus Aurelius

• Anger is like ruin,It breaks itself upon which it falls.
  • Francis Bacon

• Hatred is self-punishment.
  • Hosea Ballou

• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
  • Honoré de Balzac

• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
  • Henry Ward Beecher

• When a man gets angry he falls down.
  • Bhagavad Gita

• When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
  • Bhagavad Gita

• Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
  • H. G. Bohn

• When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
  • H. Jackson Brown Jr

• 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.
  • Buddha

• Anger is like holding onto a red hot coal with the intent to throw it at somebody else. You are the one who gets burned.
  • Buddha

• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
  • Cato the Elder

• Hatred is inveterate anger.
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
  • Charles Caleb Colton

• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
  • Charles Caleb Colton

• I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight...I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
  • Thich Nhat Hanh

• Your anger is a gift.
  • Zack de la Rocha

• When anger rises, think of the consequences.
  • Confucius

• For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love — this is an old rule.
  • Dhammapada

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

• Beware the fury of a patient man.
  • John Dryden

• To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
  • Tryon Edwards

• Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
  • Epictetus

• Anger is a natural response to perceived disrespect for our inate rights.
  • Fletcher

• Remember to not only say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  • Benjamin Franklin

• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
  • Haliburton

• Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
  • Lord Halifax

• 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.
  • Matthew Henry

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

• If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost: you can still call him vile names.
  • Elbert Hubbard

• Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
  • Robert Green Ingersoll

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
  • Walter Savage Landor

• I can fell your anger, it gives you focus; makes you stronger.
  • Emperor Palpatine, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  • Seneca

• An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
  • Publilius Syrus

• When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
  • Mark Twain

• Anger is like cancer, It wont stop until it consumes every last bit of you
  • Curtis Watkins

• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
  • Daniel Webster

Anonymous

• Anger does nobody good, but patience is the father of kindness

• Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

• Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
  • Malabar Proverb

• Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments

• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
  • Chinese proverb

• My passions flare, I weep in sadness, wallow in despair, my passions change, anger reigns, now all lie in fear.

• Anger is an energy—so channel it!