Do not teach your
children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry and sin
not.
Lyman Abbott
Every great sin ought
to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A
community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected
anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a
community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and
unconcern.
Lyman Abbott
There's nothing more
dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Scott Raymond Adams
Conceit spoils the
finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or
goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness
of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great
charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott
As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his
body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
Akhnaton [Ikhnaton or Akhenaton]
Men often make up in
wrath what they want in reason.
Horatio Alger
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.
Aristotle
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
Heav'n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
William Congreve
Anger as soon as fed is dead
'Tis starving that makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus
To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
Milton R. Sapirstein
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about change.
Malcolm X
Leo Buscaglia
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Helen Douglas
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
HW Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
Marcus Aurelius
How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
John Dryden
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Unknown
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Lord Halifax
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Unknown
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Chuck Norris
Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Tryon Edwards
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Marcus Antonius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Cato
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
W. R. Alger
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Golda Meir
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
St. Francis De Sales
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Shakespeare
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
Elizabeth Kenny
He who angers you conquers you.
Greek
Those who the Gods would destroy
First they would make angry
Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
John Steinbeck
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Willard Gaylin
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Henry Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Lawrence J. Peter
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Tamil proverb
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
Pythagoras
Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
Pasquier Quesnel
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
Charles De Gaulle
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we
were often angry at each other.
Alfred Montapert
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Daniel Webster
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Thomas Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
Thomas Fuller
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he
cannot help.
Clarendon
Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects
nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than
any other against whom it is directed.
Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Elizabeth 1
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you
cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) - Greek philosopher
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.
Proverbs 14:17a
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...
Daniel Webster
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Seneca
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are
not yourself.
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
Dr. Robert Anthony
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Tyron Edwards
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still
better.
Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he
that lacks it has a maimed mind.
Horace
Anger is a momentary madness, so control
your passion or it will control you.
Walter S. Landor
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb
of love.
George Jean Nathan
No man can think clearly when his fist are clenched.
William Shenstone
Think when you are enraged at anyone, what would probably
become of your sentiments should he die during the dispute.
Aristotle
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry
with the right person, and to the right degree, and
at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in
the right way, that is not within everybody's power,
that is not easy.
Elizabeth Kenny
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers
you!" But my mother was a saint.
Eric Hoffer
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor
as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves.
We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant
toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive
others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice
others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Frederick
Buechner
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most
fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances
long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of
bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the
last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and
the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is
a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that
what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton
at the feast is you.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but
around in awareness.
Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish
them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish
to be.
William Blake
I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
A Poison Tree