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Anger Quotes

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Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.
Nouman Ali Khan

Endurance is not suppressing your emotions and allowing indignation to accumulate inside you. Endurance is to discuss what's agitating you without surrendering command of your feelings.
Authors on Anger Quotes: Swami Vivekananda Rajneesh William Shakespeare Nhat Hanh Horace Mahatma Gandhi Seneca the Younger Aristotle Henry Ward Beecher Epictetus Wayne Dyer Plutarch Benjamin Franklin Dalai Lama Gordon B. Hinckley Ella Wheeler Wilcox David O. McKay Harriet Lerner Audre Lorde Michel de Montaigne Gilbert K. Chesterton Mason Cooley Gautama Buddha Gina Barreca Saint John Chrysostom Doc Childre Francis Bacon Sathya Sai Baba Confucius Ovid Martin Luther King, Jr. Sophocles Marcus Aurelius
2.
Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Never take action out of ire or pledge anything in elation.
3.
No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.
Saint John Chrysostom

No matter how reasonable your rhetoric may be, when you communicate with hostility, it all goes to waste; no matter how confidently you speak, how fairly criticize, or whatever else.
4.
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
Henri Nouwen

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Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
Marcus Aurelius

Our ire and vexation are more detrimental to us than the matters which enrage or irritate us.
6.
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

A second of forbearance in a second of fury forestalls a thousand seconds of remorse.
7.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras

We should exercise restraint both verbally and physically when we are feeling wrathful.
8.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
Epictetus

Anyone who can provoke your wrath assumes control over you.
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This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.
Joanna Macy

10.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Rumi

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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
Adyashanti

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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Charles Bukowski

Folks are peculiar: Small grievances can incense them, but on matters of great importance like squandering their lives, they hardly appear to register.
13.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking

Folks won't make space for you if you're constantly irate or grumbling.
14.
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Maxine Waters

'I am entitled to my wrath, and I will not accept anyone's attempt to persuade me that it is wrong or inappropriate to feel this way.'
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Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.
Jim Henson

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It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
Saint John Chrysostom

'It is preferable to be overly compassionate than excessively stern. . .Would you like to become a saint? Exercise strict self-discipline but be gracious towards others.'
17.
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.
Wayne Dyer

When you are put under pressure, the result is a reflection of your inner character.
18.
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
Sylvester Stallone

The immutable law of cause and effect will ensure that those who seek to harm others will eventually find themselves destitute and isolated.
19.
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.
Leon Brown

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The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Marcus Aurelius

21.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken

22.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service

23.
It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.
Tupac Shakur

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I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
Amy Winehouse

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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France

26.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan

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Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.
Tupac Shakur

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People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.
Jacque Fresco

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The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride.
John Paul Jackson

30.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

31.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
Marshall B. Rosenberg

32.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran

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People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Max Cannon

34.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills

35.
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.
Sathya Sai Baba

36.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

37.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!
Quentin Tarantino

38.
The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.
Dalai Lama

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan

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What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Jay Sekulow

41.
Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
Gabrielle Roth

42.
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Bobby Hull

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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
Anais Nin

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Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.
Bernard of Clairvaux

45.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Scott Adams

46.
Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?
Kelly Nelson

47.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

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A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill