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anger

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

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

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

He who angers you conquers you.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

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

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

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.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

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

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

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Anger is a good motivator.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.