Anger Management Quotes And Sayings
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“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”
– Eric Hoffer
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back–in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. ”
– Federick Buechner
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. ”
– James Thurber
“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 Kemps
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ”
– Chinese Proverb
“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. ”
– Jefferson
“Men in rage strike those that wish them best. ”
– Shakespeare
“When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry. ”
– Haliburton
“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. ”
– Henry Beecher
“Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. ”
– Lawrence J. Peter
“The angry people are those people who are most afraid. ”
– Dr. Robert Anthony
“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. ”
– Alfred Montapert
“Keep cool; anger is not an argument. ”
– Daniel Webster
“Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ”
– Thomas Fuller
“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 a Kempis
“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 – that is not easy.”
– Aristotle
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ”
– Benjamin franklin
“He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not. ”
– Seneca
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ”
– Horace
“Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment—negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don’t let justified emotions rob your health and well-being. ”
– Doc Childre and Howard Martin
“So if we can’t express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won’t work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart’s intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way. ”
– Doc Childre and Howard Martin
“Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.”
– Helen Douglas
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. ”
– HW Longfellow
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Sticks and stones may break your bones when there’s anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ”
– Unknown
“Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. ”
– Lord Halifax
“Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest. ”
– Unknown
“Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ”
– Chuck Norris
“To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better. ”
– Tyron Edwards
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