Anger Quotes - Page 31

• A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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• Anger is fear in disguise.

  Rajneesh

  Disguise

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• Anger is temporary madness.

  Rajneesh

  Madness, Temporary

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• Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Shows, Wounds

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• An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.

  Rajneesh

  Insecure, Giving, Expectations

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• I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

  Cato the Elder

  God, Thinking, Silence

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• If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share your lust. We can share only that which we have, we cannot share that which we don't have. This has to be the fundamental thing to be remembered; hence the first step is meditation and the second step is compassion.

  Rajneesh

  Compassion, Meditation, Greed

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• If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

  Rajneesh

  People, Meditation, Want

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• If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Ego, Inferiority

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• It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.

  Ramakrishna

  Lust, Desire, World

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Sea, Decision, Storm

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• No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Men, Influence, Angry

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.107, Latter-day Publishing

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• A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

  David O. McKay

  Life, Moving, Passion

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• The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.

  Brigham Young, Jr.

  Waiting, Armor, Vulnerable

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• Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Heat, Steam

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• Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Adversity, Flames, Order

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• In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.

  Louis IX of France

  Order, Mind, Violence

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• Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

  Alfred Bester

  Rage, Said, Tension

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Overcoming, Rage

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

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• Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Judgement, Wish

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• There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

  Learned Hand

  Passion, May, Succeed

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Names, People

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• To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

  Aristotle

  Men, Rage, Easy

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