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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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Browse Quotations about Anger

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Anger is a brief lunacy.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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 an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Anger is short madness
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Anger rest in the bosom of fools.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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.
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
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 -- this is not easy.
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.
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Depression is rage spread thin.
Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Go ahead, make my day.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!
I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
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.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.