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List of anger quotes
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This is a list of anger quotes
A hot coal
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.
Buddha
An acidAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
Anger and intoleranceAnger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi
Angry or complainingPeople won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking
Banishing angerI know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi
DelayThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca
Forget itMan should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi
How to forget your angerWhen you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus
It is easy to be angryAnybody 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 and is not easy.
Aristotle
Judgement is never justThe only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D. H. Lawrence
Men in rage
More hurtfulAnger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca
Not right in the brainGenerally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something is wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
PunishmentYou will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha
Quick temperA quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
Seldom
The best fighterThe best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
The consequences of angerHow much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
The enemy and the monsterAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
To the presence of the godsSpeak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
Buddha
Two thingsThere are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
What I neededWhat I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine
When angryWhen angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
When you remain angryFor every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where anger dwells
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