Anger Management Quotes

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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  Get mad, then get over it.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Moving On, Wise

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.9, Harper Collins

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

  Horace

  Anger, Passion, Madness

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

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• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Patience, Regret, Anger

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• Anger is one letter short of danger.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, Wise

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• When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Block, Mean, Reality

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• Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

  Chuck Norris

  Inspirational, Humorous, Anger

  Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.102, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Hatred - The anger of the weak.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Hatred, Weak, Hatred And Anger

  Alphonse Daudet, George Burnham Ives, Jane Minot Sedgwick, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Olive Edward Palmer (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Anger, Character

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• There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Wisdom, Peace

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• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Anger, Helping Others

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• He who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Inspirational, Life, Anger

  "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

  T. D. Jakes

  Foolish, Humans, Staying

  Twitter post from Jul 2, 2012

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• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Single, Hurt

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

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cancer, Anger

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

  Harriet Lerner

  Anger, Listening, Signals

  Harriet Lerner (2014). “The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships”, Harper Collins

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• The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride.

  John Paul Jackson

  Inspirational, Anger, Pride

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• The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

  Muhammad

  Strength, Being Strong, Powerful

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• 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.

  Howard Martin

  Disappointment, Anger, Heart

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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  Yanni

  Life, Motivational, Music

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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