Inspirations

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.

- Akhenaton

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

- Akhenaton

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.

- Helen Alfredsson

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

- Barbara De Angelis

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

- Maya Angelou

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 Antonius

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.

- Aristotle

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

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

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Anger rest in the bosom of fools.

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

- Ambrose Bierce

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John F. Boyes

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

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.

- Buddha

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.

- Buddha

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No person is important enough to make me angry.

- Carlos Castaneda

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

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.

- Clarendon

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins

- Dhammapada

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

- Wayne Dyer

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

- Wayne Dyer

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Tryon Edwards

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We boil at different degrees.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

- Epictetus

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

- St. Francis De Sales

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Benjamin Franklin

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

- Sigmund Freud

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

- Thomas Fuller

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

- Thomas Fuller

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

- Baltasar Gracian

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

- St. Gregory The Great

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

- Horace

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

- Horace

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

- Bobby Hull

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.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

- Washington Irving

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

- Thomas Jefferson

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

- Joseph Joubert

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

- Martin Luther

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

- Samurai Maxim

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

- David O. Mckay

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

- Alfred A. Montapert

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.

- Babe Paley

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.

- Peace Pilgrim

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

- Plato

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

- Proverb

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

- Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Malabar Proverb

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.

- Francis Quarles

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

- Thomas De Quincey

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry.''

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Seneca

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

- Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

- Seneca

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

- Sri Swami Sivananda

''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!

- George Sweeting

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

- Publilius Syrus

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

- James Thurber

Depression is rage spread thin.

- Paul Tillich

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.''

- Source Unknown

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

- Source Unknown

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

- Source Unknown

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

- Source Unknown

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

- Source Unknown

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Daniel Webster

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

- John Webster

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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.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

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.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

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.

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.

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.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Anger rest in the bosom of fools.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

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.

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.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

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.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

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

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

We boil at different degrees.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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

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

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

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 is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

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.

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.

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

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

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.

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

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry.''

Anger: 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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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

''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!

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Depression is rage spread thin.