Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Harriet Lerner The Dance of Anger, 1985
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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 in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo 'The Godfather'
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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden in Healthy Living Magazine
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Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson Poems, Second Series, 1891
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Epictetus
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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus
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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Babylonian Talmud tractate Gittin
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, 100.
Thomas Jefferson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Kill your anger while it is small.
Slovakian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Lord Halifax Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.
Ann Landers Treasury of Women's Quotations
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To be angry is revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.
Alexander Pope Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Anger always thinks it has power beyond its power.
Publilius Syrus Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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The greatest cure of anger is delay.
Seneca Words for All Occasions
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Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do--or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Ingersoll Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow.
Slovakian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
Molly Ringwald Quoted in "I Had to Let Go of my Anger" by Tony Vellela, a profile of Molly Ringwald published in the May 10, 1998 Parade magazine.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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The size of a man can be measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
J. Kenfield Morley The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
Erica Jong The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Anger ends in cruelty.
Indian (Tamil) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.
English proverb The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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In proportion as anger comes, sense departs.
Turkish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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A soft answer turns away wrath.
King Solomon Proverbs 15:1, Holy Bible
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What anger wants it buys at the price of soul.
Heraclitus The Story of Thought
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The offender never pardons.
George Herbert Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Julia Cameron The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Anger punishes itself.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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...blame always begins with anger.
M. Scott Peck Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth
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If there's bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.
Yiddish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese proverb The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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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.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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When thou are above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary a man's life is.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Anger hears no counsel.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Anger dies quickly with a good man.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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When anger blinds the eyes, truth disappears.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
Yiddish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Anger is a short madness.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
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When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi Treasury of Women's Quotations
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When people express themselves verbally, they want feedback that
Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner Dealing With People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
Audre Lourde The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren Body, Mind and Spirit
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
George Clemenceau The Guinness Chronicle of the 20th-century in Quotations edited by David Milsted
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean-Nathan The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
Indian (Tamil) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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I always knew that fury was my natural enemy. It clotted my blood and clogged my pores. It literally blinded me.
Maya Angelou You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
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A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Envy and wrath shorten the life.
Ecclesiaticus 30:24 (Apocrypha) The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation.
St. Francis of Assisi Body, Mind and Spirit: Daily Inspiration for Healing and Wholeness
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One enemy is too much.
George Herbert Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Words for All Occasions
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A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Feel the feeling. Choose the behavior.
Charles Rumberg Letting Go of Anger: The 10 Most Common Anger Styles and What to Do About Them
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If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful.


Zen master Yuanwu Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership
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The biter is often bit.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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The arrow that has left the bow never returns.
Iranian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum from the essay "Pay Attention" Handbook for the Soul
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Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs.
Brian Aldiss, from Barefoot in the Head The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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He that is angry is seldom at ease.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Hate starts as an anger that doesn't get resolved. Then it becomes a resentment, and then a true hatred that can go on indefinitely...hatred causes serious damage over time. Haters can't let go or get on with life. They become bitter and frustrated. Their lives become mean, small, and narrow.
Ron Potter-Efron, MSW, and Pat Potter-Efron, MS Letting Go of Anger
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Starts The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorrow, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our day upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place to be quickly reconciled.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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The anger of the prudent never shows.
Burmese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare (King Henry VIII) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Bronte Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Neither anger nor fear shall find lodging in your mind.
Dekanawidah A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
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We all boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla Treasury of Women's Quotations
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
Bishop Berkeley The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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Every day you get many chances to become angry. For instance, a driver cuts in front of your car on the way to work. Someone else criticizes you. Another person doesn't return your call. All these are anger invitations. You could accept every one, in which case you'll be angry all the time.
Instead, you have to be careful. The key is to ignore the less important invitations. You have to separate what is merely annoying from what is really serious.
Ron Potter-Efron, MSW, and Pat Potter-Efron, MS Letting Go of Anger
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1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will never be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. Never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. Don't let the evils which have never happened cost you pain.
9. Always take things by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson Bible Illustrator (software from Parsons Technology)
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13 Holy Bible
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